Hi, it is strange because picard-tools is packaged and build on Debian (using snappy package).
Looking at package content of libsnappy: lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2013-01-04 10:10 ./usr/share/java/snappy1.0.3-java.jar -> ../maven-repo/org/xerial/snappy/snappy1.0.3-java/1.0.3-rc3/snappy1.0.3-java-1.0.3-rc3.jar /usr/share/java/snappy... file is a symlink to file to maven-repo directory. Jar file is present in the maven-repo as you can see: http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/libsnappy1.0.3-java/filelist I have patched the build.xml for picard-tools to use the snappy jar file. Maybe your picard-tools package is not correctly patched. Here is an extract of my picard-tools build using my snappy package. init: compile-sam-jdk: [mkdir] Created dir: /home/osallou/DEBIAN-MED/picard-tools/picard-tools/classes [javac] /home/osallou/DEBIAN-MED/picard-tools/picard-tools/build.xml:101: warning: 'includeantruntime' was not set, defaulting to build.sysclasspath=last; set to false for repeatable builds [javac] Compiling 112 source files to /home/osallou/DEBIAN-MED/picard-tools/picard-tools/classes [javac] Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API. [javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details. [javac] Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations. [javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details. sam-jar: [mkdir] Created dir: /home/osallou/DEBIAN-MED/picard-tools/picard-tools/dist [jar] Building jar: /home/osallou/DEBIAN-MED/picard-tools/picard-tools/dist/sam-1.82.jar compile-picard: [javac] /home/osallou/DEBIAN-MED/picard-tools/picard-tools/build.xml:113: warning: 'includeantruntime' was not set, defaulting to build.sysclasspath=last; set to false for repeatable builds As you can see it is successful. Olivier
