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From: Egor Pasko <egor.pasko@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Building Harmony on Ubuntu 7.10
Date: 29 Mar 2008 23:29:37 +0300
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On the 0x416 day of Apache Harmony Senaka Fernando wrote:
> Hi again Egor,
> 
> The error message was "No supported regular expression matcher found:
> java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
> org.apache.tools.ant.util.regexp.Jdk14RegexpRegexp"

added this case to troubleshooting:
http://wiki.apache.org/harmony/DrlvmBuildTroubleshooting

> 
> Regards,
> Senaka
> 
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Senaka Fernando <senakafdo@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On 29 Mar 2008 20:40:49 +0300, Egor Pasko <egor.pasko@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On the 0x416 day of Apache Harmony Senaka Fernando wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > Thanks to the valuable discussions on this list I was able to
> > > successfully
> > > > build Harmony on Ubuntu 7.10 in less than a day. Below are some of my
> > > > experiences.
> > > >
> > > > 1. Requirement of ant-optional
> > >
> > > is this one really necessary? I do not have it installed and see no
> > > problem on Ubuntu 6, did not try on 7-10 yet. What is the error
> > > message?
> >
> >
> > Yes, if not it lead to a build break. However, I had several other issues
> > that caused build breaks too, at the point at which I added this package. I
> > suspected that this is required because the error message changed after this
> > package was added.
> >
> > I discovered that this package is required from [1].
> >
> > [1] http://markmail.org/message/cijagz7kkmqjfke4
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > > 2. Requirement of setting ANT_OPTS even on Ubuntu
> > > > 3. Xerces distribution at given download target is faulty
> > > > 4. Need to separately checkout log4cxx
> > > > 5. Need to install package libxtst-dev
> > >
> > > updated it on the website, in prerequisites, expect the update to take
> > > effect soon.
> >
> >
> > That's quite nice.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Senaka
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > everyone: I think, it is nice to put the link to DevConfiguration
> > > howtos from the Getting Started For Contributors [1]. Or move the wiki
> > > to separate page(s). What is better?
> > >
> > > > Also, some methods discussed on the list weren't required (ex:- soft
> > > links
> > > > for libXtst). In addition to that I noticed a number of warnings when
> > > > building C/C++ source.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Senaka
> > >
> > > [1] http://harmony.apache.org/quickhelp_contributors.html
> > >
> > > --
> > > Egor Pasko
> > >
> > >
> >

-- 
Egor Pasko