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| <h1><a name="feedback">Feedback</a> and Troubleshooting</h1> |
| <p>If things do not work, especially simple things like <tt>ant -version</tt>, |
| then something is wrong with your configuration. Before filing bug reports and |
| emailing all the ant mailing lists</p> |
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| <li>Check your environment variables. Are ANT_HOME and JAVA_HOME correct? If |
| they have quotes or trailing slashes, remove them.</li> |
| <li>Unset CLASSPATH; if that is wrong things go horribly wrong. Ant does not |
| need the CLASSPATH variable defined to anything to work.</li> |
| <li>Make sure there are no versions of crimson.jar or other XML parsers in JRE/ext</li> |
| <li>Is your path correct? is Ant on it? What about JDK/bin? have you tested |
| this? If you are using Jikes, is it on the path? A createProcess error (especially |
| with ID=2 on windows) usually means executable not found on the path.</li> |
| <li>Which version of ant are you running? Other applications distribute a copy |
| -it may be being picked up by accident.</li> |
| <li>If a task is failing to run is optional.jar in ANT_HOME/lib? Are there any |
| libraries which it depends on missing?</li> |
| <li>If a task doesn't do what you expect, run <tt>ant -verbose</tt> or <tt>ant |
| -debug</tt> to see what is happening</li> |
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| <p>If you can't fix your problem, start with the <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html" target="_top">Ant |
| User Mailing List</a> . These are other ant users who will help you learn to |
| use ant. If they cannot fix it then someone may suggest filing a bug report, |
| which will escalate the issue. Remember of course, that support, like all open |
| source development tasks, is voluntary. If you haven't invested time in helping |
| yourself by following the steps above, it is unlikely that anyone will invest |
| the time in helping you. </p> |
| <p>Also, if you don't understand something, the <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html" target="_top">Ant |
| User Mailing List</a> is the place to ask questions. Not the developer list, |
| nor the individuals whose names appears in the source and documentation. If |
| they answered all such emails, nobody would have any time to improve ant. </p> |
| <p>To provide feedback on this software, please subscribe to the <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html" target="_top">Ant |
| User Mailing List</a> </p> |
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| <p>If you want to contribute to Ant or stay current with the latest |
| development, join the |
| <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html" target="_top">Ant Development Mailing List</a> |
| </p> |
| <p>Archives of both lists can be found at <a |
| href="http://archive.covalent.net/" target="_top">http://archive.covalent.net/</a>. Many |
| thanks to Covalent Technologies. A searchable archive can be found at <a |
| href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com" target="_top">http://marc.theaimsgroup.com</a>. If |
| you know of any additional archive sites, please report them to the |
| lists.</p> |
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