Well ... I was wrong. Ant is smarter than I thought! (And I already thought it was good :-) It does find it's own jar file.
In my defense, I'm going to claim that it didn't used to do that in the earlier versions. Simon ----------------------------------------------------------------- Simon P. Chappell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Programming Specialist www.landsend.com Lands' End, Inc. (608) 935-4526 >-----Original Message----- >From: Chappell, Simon P >Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 12:34 PM >To: Ant Users List >Subject: RE: Ant doesn't recognized tasks on Mac OS X > > >I have the ant.jar in CLASSPATH so that I do not have to modify the ant >shell script that comes with ant. Ant does an excellent job of finding >everything except it's own jar file! My classpath now has only two >entries in it: "." and ant.jar. This works wonderfully for me. > >If there is a good (not just hacking the supplied ant shell script) way >to help ant find it's own jar file, then I'd be pleased to hear it. > >Simon > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >Simon P. Chappell [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Java Programming Specialist www.landsend.com >Lands' End, Inc. (608) 935-4526 > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Diane Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:19 AM >>To: Ant Users List >>Subject: RE: Ant doesn't recognized tasks on Mac OS X >> >> >>--- "Chappell, Simon P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I have been very successful running ant on OS X. >>> >>> My setup is: OS X 10.1.2, Bash 2.0.5 & ant 1.4.1 >>> >>> The important thing I found with ant was to ensure that the >JAVA_HOME >>> and ANT_HOME environment variables were correctly set and >>then to ensure >>> that the ant.jar was in the CLASSPATH. >> >>Just curious... why would you need to have CLASSPATH set with >>ant.jar in >>it? The 'ant' script puts the jars in $ANT_HOME/lib into the >>classpath it >>constructs -- does that not work for OS X? >> >>Diane >> >>===== >>([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> >> >> >>__________________________________________________ >>Do You Yahoo!? >>Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! >>http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
