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From: "Nico Seessle" <nico@seessle.de>
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Subject: Re: Problems running subproject <javac>'s
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 00:57:05 +0200
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As a temporary fix the following may work:

In the method executeJikesCompile in Javac.java change the statement

            if (myos.toLowerCase().indexOf("windows") >= 0
                && (args.length > 250 || winsucks)) {

to read
            if (myos.toLowerCase().indexOf("windows") >= 0) {

Ant will then write all (source-file) arguments to a temporary file and pass
this to the compiler. Don't know why this works from the main-buildfile but
not if called from the outside, but I will have a look at it and maybe we
will find a "real" fix for this...

I have no plan currently how to get rid of the additional DOS-Windows, but
they shouldn't hurt so much :-)

Hope this helps

Nico

----- Original Message -----
From: "Diane Holt" <holtdl@yahoo.com>
To: <ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 12:25 PM
Subject: Problems running subproject <javac>'s


> I have a subproject I call from my main build.xml thus:
>
>   <target name="func" depends="demo">
>     <ant antfile="functest.xml" dir="${functest.dir}"/>
>   </target>
>
> The functest.xml has one target, "functest", which does several <javac>
> tasks and a whole bunch of <copyfile>'s. When it does each of the
> <javac>'s, it pops up (very briefly -- I'm guessing only while jikes is
> actually executing) an empty DOS window (I run on NT under MKS korn
> shell). This doesn't happen on the <javac> tasks I run out of build.xml --
> only the ones out of functest.xml. Once the target hits the point where
> one of the <javac>'s include names has a ** wildcard in it, I get the
> following:
>
>     [javac] The following character string is too long:
>     [javac]
> BUILD FAILED
> build.xml:635: Compile failed, messages should have been provided.
> Total time: 31 seconds
>
> Any ideas on what could be causing this behaviour? Why the DOS window pop
> up's, and the "string too long" error (which I'm assuming is coming from
> DOS)?  None of this happens if I run these same <javac>'s from the top
> level build.xml file. (But I was hoping not to have to do that, since this
> target not only involves a bunch of <javac>'s but also a majillion file
> copies, and I was hoping to keep the top-level build.xml relatively
> succinct -- as it is, it's 832 lines, and there's still more to come.)
>
> Thanks,
> Diane
>
>
> =====
> (holtdl@yahoo.com)
>
>
>
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