Hi,
I will probably post this one on the Eclipse mailing list, but maybe
someone in the Ant list can help.
I am working on an open-source project (Jmol [1]).
The build is made with Ant but some of the Jmol developers / users use
it from Eclipse.
The build works correctly under Windows (and probably Unix) but I have a
problem under Mac OS X.
It's not on my machine, it's been reported by an other user, so I can't
test it on my own computer (no Mac).
I am using a <exec> task to run xgettext (from the Gnu gettext tools).
The situation is :
- xgettext is in the path,
- if Ant is run directly from the command line in the directory where
the build file is, it works
- if Ant is run from Eclipse, Ant doesn't find the executable
Does anyone have already had this kind of problem ?
I don't know what to look for, any help will be appreciated. Any idea ?
Here is a test build file showing the problem:
<project name="test-exec" default="test-exec" basedir=".">
<property name="src.dir" value="src" />
<target name="test-exec">
<echo message="${java.library.path}"/>
<exec executable="xgettext" dir="${src.dir}" failonerror="false"
failifexecutionfails="false">
<arg value="--help"/>
</exec>
</target>
</project>
Here is the result of running the build with -debug :
Apache Ant version 1.6.5 compiled on June 2 2005
Setting ro project property: ant.file ->
/Users/rkanters/Projects/Eclipse/Jmol/build-text.xml
Buildfile: /Users/rkanters/Projects/Eclipse/Jmol/build-text.xml
Adding reference: ant.projectHelper
Adding reference: ant.parsing.context
Adding reference: ant.targets
parsing buildfile /Users/rkanters/Projects/Eclipse/Jmol/build-text.xml
with URI = file:///Users/rkanters/Projects/Eclipse/Jmol/build-text.xml
Setting ro project property: ant.project.name -> test-exec
Adding reference: test-exec
Setting ro project property: ant.file.test-exec ->
/Users/rkanters/Projects/Eclipse/Jmol/build-text.xml
Project base dir set to: /Users/rkanters/Projects/Eclipse/Jmol
+Target:
+Target: test-exec
Setting project property: src.dir -> src
Adding reference: eclipse.ant.targetVector
Build sequence for target(s) `test-exec' is [test-exec]
Complete build sequence is [test-exec, ]
test-exec:
[echo]
..:/Library/Java/Extensions:/System/Library/Java/Extensions:/usr/lib/java:/Applications/eclipse/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/bundles/63/1/.cp
[exec] Current OS is Mac OS X
[exec] Executing 'xgettext' with arguments:
[exec] '--help'
[exec]
[exec] The ' characters around the executable and arguments are
[exec] not part of the command.
Execute:Java13CommandLauncher: Executing 'xgettext' with arguments:
'--help'
The ' characters around the executable and arguments are
not part of the command.
[exec] Execute failed: java.io.IOException: xgettext: not found
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 548 milliseconds
Thanks for any help,
Nicolas
[1] http://www.jmol.org/
