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| <a name="Having Problems?"><strong>Having Problems?</strong></a> |
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| <blockquote> |
| <p>If you are having problems with Ant, this page details some steps you can take |
| to try and resolve the problem. If you can't resolve the problem then this page will help |
| you collect some of the relevant information to provide a bug report. This information will help |
| the Ant developers understand and resolve the problem. Of course, not all of the steps here will |
| make sense for every problem you encounter. These are just some suggestions to |
| point you in the right direction. |
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| <p>The first step to take when you have a problem is to read the <a href="manual/index.html"> |
| manual</a> entry for the task or concept that is giving you trouble. Check particularly the meaning of |
| attributes and nested elements. Perhaps an attribute would provide the behavior you require. If you |
| have problems with the manual, then you can submit a documentation bug report (see below) to help us |
| improve the Ant documentation. |
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| <a name="Examine Debug Output"><strong>Examine Debug Output</strong></a> |
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| <blockquote> |
| <p>The first step when you have a problem is to see what Ant is doing. Try running Ant with |
| The verbose flag<br /><br /> |
| <code>ant -verbose</code><br /><br /> |
| or<br /><br /> |
| <code>ant -v</code><br /><br /> |
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| This will produce something which starts like the following:</p> |
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| <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre> |
| Ant version 1.4alpha compiled on August 6 2001 |
| Buildfile: build.xml |
| Detected Java version: 1.3 in: f:\jdk1.3\jre |
| Detected OS: Windows NT |
| parsing buildfile \jakarta-ant\build.xml with |
| URI = file:/jakarta-ant/build.xml |
| Project base dir set to: \jakarta-ant |
| [property] Loading \jakarta-ant\.ant.properties |
| [property] Unable to find property file: \jakarta-ant\.ant.properties |
| [property] Loading \conor\.ant.properties |
| [property] Override ignored for debug |
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| prepare: |
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| check_for_optional_packages: |
| ... |
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| <p> |
| You may be able to see in this trace what ant is doing and why it takes a particular |
| course of action. If you need even more information you can use the <code>-debug</code> |
| flag rather than <code>-verbose</code>. This will generally produce so much output that |
| you may want to save the output and analyze it in an editor. |
| </p> |
| <p>So, once you have all this debug information, how can you use it to solve your problem. |
| That will depend on the task in question and the nature of your problem. Each task logs |
| different aspects of its operation, but it will give you an idea of what is going on. For |
| example, the <javac> task logs the reasons why it chooses to compile particular |
| classes and the equivalent command it is using. The following trace (which has been edited |
| and reformatted for clarity) shows javac adding one class but skipping another. This is followed |
| by the compiler arguments and a summary of all the classes to be compiled. |
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| <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre> |
| [javac] org\apache\tools\ant\listener\Log4jListener.java added as |
| \build\classes\org\apache\tools\ant\listener\Log4jListener.class |
| is outdated. |
| [javac] org\apache\tools\ant\Location.java omitted as |
| \build\classes\org\apache\tools\ant\Location.class is up to date. |
| ... |
| [javac] Compiling 1 source file to \jakarta-ant\build\classes |
| [javac] Using modern compiler |
| [javac] Compilation args: -d \jakarta-ant\build\classes -classpath |
| \jakarta-ant\build\classes;F:\jdk1.3\lib\tools.jar; |
| \Ant\lib\optional.jar;\Ant\lib\log4j.jar; |
| \Ant\lib\junit.jar;\Ant\lib\jaxp.jar; |
| \Ant\lib\crimson.jar;\Ant\lib\ant.jar |
| -sourcepath \jakarta-ant\src\main -g:none -O |
| [javac] File to be compiled: |
| \src\main\org\apache\tools\ant\listener\Log4jListener.java |
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| <p> |
| In many cases Ant tasks are wrappers around OS commands or other java classes. In debug mode, many |
| of these tasks will print out the equivalent command line, as the <javac> task above does. If |
| you are having a problem, it is often useful to run the command directly in the same way Ant is doing |
| and see if the problem persists. The problem may lie in the command being run by Ant, or in the way |
| the Ant task is running the command. You can also see the effect of changing attribute values on the |
| generated command line. This can help you to understand whether you are using the correct attributes |
| and values. |
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| <a name="Has it been fixed?"><strong>Has it been fixed?</strong></a> |
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| <blockquote> |
| <p> |
| After examining the debug output, you still believe that the problem you are having may be caused by Ant. |
| Chances are that someone else may have already encountered this problem and perhaps it has been |
| fixed. The next step, therefore, may be to try a nightly build of Ant to see if the |
| problem has been fixed. Nightly builds for Ant are available from the |
| <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/jakarta-ant/nightly/">Jakarta web site</a>. While Ant nightly |
| builds are typically quite stable and are used by <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/gump/latest/"> |
| Gump</a> to build many other Jakarta projects, these builds should be treated as experimental. You can |
| install and verify whether your problem has been fixed. Note that nightly builds do not build many of the |
| optional tasks the come with Ant. A snapshot of these optional tasks is occasionally uploaded to the nightly |
| download <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/jakarta-ant/nightly/optional/">area</a>. Note that even |
| this snapshot does not contain every optional task. |
| </p> |
| </blockquote> |
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| <a name="Has it been reported?"><strong>Has it been reported?</strong></a> |
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| <blockquote> |
| <p> |
| If the current nightly build doesn't resolve your problem, it is possible that someone else has reported |
| the issue. It is time to look at the <a href="http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/">Apache Bug Database</a>. |
| This system is easy to use and it will let you search the currently open and resolved bugs to see if your |
| problem has already been reported. If it has, you can see whether any of the developers have commented, |
| suggesting workarounds or the reason for the bug, etc. You may have more information to add (see about |
| creating bug reports below), in which case, go right ahead and add it. If you can't add more information |
| you may just want to vote for this bug, and perhaps add yourself to the CC list to follow the progress of |
| this bug. |
| </p> |
| </blockquote> |
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| <a name="Filing a Bug report"><strong>Filing a Bug report</strong></a> |
| </font> |
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| <blockquote> |
| <p>By this time you may have decided that there is a bug in Ant. You have a few choices at this |
| point. You can send an email to the ant-user mailing list to see if others have encountered your issue |
| and how they may have worked around it. If after some discussion, you still feel you have a bug, it |
| is time to create a bug report. This is a simple operation in the Bug Database. Please try to provide |
| as much information as possible to assist the developers in resolving the bug. Please try to enter correct |
| values for the various inputs when creating the bug. Once the bug is created you can add attachments to |
| the bug report. |
| </p> |
| <p>What information should you include in your bug report? The easiest bugs to fix are those which are most |
| easily reproducible, so if you can, it is really helpful to produce a small test case that exhibits the |
| problem. In this case, you would attach the build file and other files necessary to reproduce the problem |
| probably packed together in an archive. If you can't produce a test case, you should try to include a |
| snippet from your build file and the relevant sections from the debug out from Ant. Try to include the |
| header information where Ant states the version, the OS and VM information etc. As the debug output is |
| likely to be very large, you should try to remove the output which is not relevant. Once the bug is |
| entered into the Bug Database, you will be kept informed about progress on the bug. If you receive email |
| asking for further information, please try to respond as it will aid in the resolution of your bug. |
| </p> |
| </blockquote> |
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| <a name="Fixing the Bug"><strong>Fixing the Bug</strong></a> |
| </font> |
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| <blockquote> |
| <p>If you aren't satisfied just filing a bug report, you can try to find and fix the problem yourself. The |
| best way to do that is by working against the latest code from CVS. Alternatively, you can work with the |
| source code from the source distributions available on the Jakarta website. If you are going to tackle the |
| issues at this level, you may want to discuss details on the ant-dev mailing list. Once you have a fix |
| for the problem, you may either submit the patch to the ant-dev mailing list or enter into the Bug |
| Database as described above, attaching the patch. Using the Bug database has the advantage of tracking |
| the progress of your bug. |
| </p> |
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