SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS Archives

February 2008

SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@LISTSERV.FNAL.GOV

Options: Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
From:
Tony Hoffmann <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Tony Hoffmann <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 5 Feb 2008 09:43:12 -0800
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (92 lines)
Steve White wrote:
> Jean-Paul,
> 
> On  4.02.08, Jean-Paul Chaput wrote:
>> This behavior comes from upstream vendor. 
>> In fact the blame sould not go on ant, which is a kind of
>> "make", but on the tool suppliyng the "build.xml" configuration
>> file which should check the presence of xml-commons-apis
>> before calling ant.
>>
> I don't mean to blame anyone.
> 
> I mean to get this problem fixed.
> 
> Could you point me to a responsible party, who could fix the problem?
> 

The responsible party could be said to be Sun as their jdk-1.5.0_xx 
package says that it provides xml-commons-apis and really doesn't. SL 
provides the java environment in a different packaging configuration as 
compared to RHEL.   This does cause some compatibility issues, at times.

> Thanks!
> 
>> On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 06:16:46PM +0100, Steve White wrote:
>>> Jean-Paul,
>>>
>>> Installing the xml-commons-apis makes the symptom go away.
>>>
>>> It is poor however, for one package to report errors in this way
>>> when another independent package is not installed.
>>>
>>> If it is not a Scientific Linux issue, whose issue is it?
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>>
>>>
>>> On  4.02.08, Jean-Paul Chaput wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You just have to install the xml-commons-apis package.
>>>>
>>>> (yum install xml-commons-apis)
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 17:20 +0100, Steve White wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> The ant 1.6.5 package in SL 5 appears to be misconfigured.
>>>>>
>>>>> $ ant -version
>>>>> /usr/bin/build-classpath: error: Could not find xml-commons-apis Java extension for this JVM
>>>>> /usr/bin/build-classpath: error: Some specified jars were not found
>>>>> Apache Ant version 1.6.5 compiled on April 4 2007
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>> -- 
>>
>>       .-.           J e a n - P a u l   C h a p u t
>>       /v\     A d m i n i s t r a t e u r   S y s t e m e
>>     /(___)\                       |
>>      ^^ ^^                        |-- e-mail : [log in to unmask]
>>                                   `-- Tel    : (33) 01.44.27.53.99 [prof.]
>>                                                     06.66.25.35.55 [port.]
>>                                                     01.47.46.01.31 [pers.]
>>
>>     U P M C   Universite Pierre & Marie Curie
>>     L I P 6   Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris VI
>>     A S I M   Architecture des Systemes Integres et Micro-electronique
>>
> 
> -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  - 
> Steve White                                             +49(331)7499-202
> e-Science / AstroGrid-D                                   Zi. 35  Bg. 20
> -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  - 
> Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam (AIP)
> An der Sternwarte 16, D-14482 Potsdam
> 
> Vorstand: Prof. Dr. Matthias Steinmetz, Peter A. Stolz
> 
> Stiftung privaten Rechts, Stiftungsverzeichnis Brandenburg: III/7-71-026
> -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  - 

-- 
Tony Hoffmann | Tel: (250)493-2277 | Fax: (250)493-7767
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
National Research Council Canada | P.O. Box 248, Penticton BC V2A 6J9
Conseil national de recherches Canada | B.P. 248, Penticton (C.-B.) V2A6J9
Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada

ATOM RSS1 RSS2