Apache Ant and Red Hat Enterprise WS 4

AsymptoticOrbit · 08-22-2005, 01:59 PM

I'm trying to install Apache Ant 1.6.5. I am having trouble locating the rpm for this package. Any suggestions?

comprookie2000 · 08-22-2005, 03:41 PM

I don't think you will find one. You can install the binary version. It has all the dependency's included. I just looked over it briefly
and basically you cerate the dir /usr/local/ant and untar it or unzip it here. then you need to set up the environment ;

Code:

export ANT_HOME=/usr/local/ant
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk-1.2.2
export PATH=${PATH}:${ANT_HOME}/bin

Just follow this;
http://ant.apache.org/manual/index.html

AsymptoticOrbit · 08-22-2005, 06:40 PM

There is a little more to it then what you suggested.

I got the following error after I installed Ant:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher
at gnu.gcj.runtime.FirstThread.run() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
at _Jv_ThreadRun(java.lang.Thread) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
at _Jv_RunMain(java.langClass, byte const, int, byte const, boolean) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
at __gcj_personality_v0 (/home/im/apache-ant-1.6.5/bin/java.version=1.4.2)
at __libc_start_main (/lib/tls/libc-23.4.so)
at _Jv_RegisterClasses ('/home/im/apache-ant-1.6.5/bin/java.version=1.4.2

The problem seems to lie withing the Ant launch script in /ant/bin.

jillande · 08-22-2005, 07:51 PM

i built rpms for this the other day, and i found that java-1.4.2-bea (or whichever version that binary expects) was the key to making ant run. it is possible that the necessary files are on your system, but in non-standard locations.

i would install java-1.4.2-bea (rhn current version is java-1.4.2-bea-1.4.2.05-1jpp_13rh) and see if that helps. that is the extent to which i can offer advise on this since i just build the package, i don't know what it does.

comprookie2000 · 08-22-2005, 08:02 PM

I don't know much about it but have installed other programs that use java, this
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk-1.2.2
is just an example, you may be able to search for someone who has installed it on
Red Hat Enterprise WS 4 to see what it uses, good luck