I wanted to do a clean build of all of Derby. So I set up an ANT External Tool launch configuration:
- Launch the build.xml from the root Derby directory
- Working directory is the root Derby directory
- Refresh resources upon completion
- Uncheck the "build before launch
- Choose the clobber, all targets (clobber is a total clean)
- Defaults for everything else
I started to build and failed with the follow errors (I'm omitting some of the ones in the middle):
[javac] C:\DerbyDev\java\build\org\apache\derbyBuild\javadoc\DiskLayoutTaglet.java:24: package com.sun.tools.doclets does not exist
[javac] import com.sun.tools.doclets.Taglet;
[javac] ^
[javac] C:\DerbyDev\java\build\org\apache\derbyBuild\javadoc\DiskLayoutTaglet.java:25: package com.sun.javadoc does not exist
[javac] import com.sun.javadoc.*;
[javac] ^
...
[javac] C:\DerbyDev\java\build\org\apache\derbyBuild\javadoc\UpgradeTaglet.java:102: cannot find symbol
[javac] symbol : class Taglet
[javac] location: class org.apache.derbyBuild.javadoc.UpgradeTaglet
[javac] Taglet t = (Taglet) tagletMap.get(tag.getName());
[javac] ^
[javac] 40 errors
So as you can see from the first two errors -- its missing the dependency for Javadoc things. As it turns out Derby defines its own Taglet for Javadoc processing. All of these classes are defined in the JDKs tools.jar file, which is in the JDK's/lib directory (not included in the JRE).
Derby's build script includes tools.jar by:
<pathelement path="${java15compile.classpath};${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar"/>
Well I went to my command prompt and looked at my environment variable and java_home was set to the JDKs location. So this should've worked. I added a new launch configuration to execute the showenv target, and added an echo statement to include java.home.
I ran this and low and behold it was pointing to the JRE path, which doesn't have a tools.jar. So the world made sense now. In my eclipse installation, I have both the JDK and JRE installations defined in my preferences. For some reason (subconscious desire to shoot myself in the foot?), the JRE was chosen for this workspace, and thus the launch configuration used that.
So to resolve the problem, you can change the external tools launch configuration for the ANT script. Go to the JRE tab and select separate JRE and choose the JDK. Or change the default JRE for the workspace, and leave the launch configuration set to run in the same JRE as the workspace.
This isn't a tricky problem, but can be a little misleading...plus I haven't posted in a while ;-)
