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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 03:23:40 +1100
To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org
From: Peter Donald <donaldp@apache.org>
Subject: Re: Problems with the current bootstrap process
Cc: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org
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At 05:17  29/1/01 +0100, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I finally found some time to breathe today and tried my first
>cvs-update since Pete has started to shuffle around the build
>process. Took me quite some time to figure out what I was supposed to
>do now 8-) Part of the problem is that ANT_HOME and the location of
>the checked out sources have always been the same for the account I'm
>doing Ant development on - I've now changed ANT_HOME to point to the
>dist directory as this seems to give the same results.
>
>The bigger problem is that the Constants.java approach doesn't seem to
>work for me (IBM JDK 1.3 on Linux) - the generated Constants.class
>file contains the correct values, but the compiler has optimized away
>the redirection to Constants and Main.class directly contains
>@VERSION@ and @DATE@.
>
>It seems the compiler is smart enough to rely on *final* here but
>chooses to read the value from the source instead of the class
>file. First I thought I could fix it by compiling Constants.java on
>its own, but it didn't change anything - I'll have to spend a little
>time investigating whether this is unique to the JDK or my box or
>something.

One way to fix it is to convert Constants to a class and make the values
non final (unsexy but workable).
Cheers,

Pete

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