Bug 158902 – dev-java/commons-collections-3.2 fails w/ blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Vinz 2006-12-23 04:20:50 UTC]

When I compile commons-collections-3.2 with Sun JDK 1.5.0.08 everything works fine, but when I emerge(compile) commons-collections-3.2 with Blackdown JDK 1.4.2.03 I get the errors (see attachments).
I don't have more JDK for testing, and I don't want to run emerge with Java 1.5, so it would be nice to know what is going wrong. I assume it compiles perfectly with Sun 1.4, but I havent tried it. But for so long I guess its a Bug.
On the net I just found "add xml-apis.jar to your CLASSPATH", but I didnt got that to work neither.

[Comment 1 Vinz 2006-12-23 04:23:51 UTC]

Created attachment 104630 [details]
The compile Errors

[Comment 2 Vinz 2006-12-23 04:24:36 UTC]

Created attachment 104631 [details]
Output of emerge --info

[Comment 3 Vlastimil Babka (Caster) (RETIRED) 2006-12-23 04:45:13 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> I don't have more JDK for testing, and I don't want to run emerge with Java
> 1.5

why? It's fully supported in gen-2 ebuilds

> On the net I just found "add xml-apis.jar to your CLASSPATH", but I didnt got
> that to work neither.

Yep, it's apparently missing a commons-external dep. sun-jdk-1.4 bundles it, blackdown not.

[Comment 4 Vlastimil Babka (Caster) (RETIRED) 2006-12-23 04:49:21 UTC]

Oh it looks like it's not a problem with compiling but rather ant runtime classes. ant-core was fixed long ago to load xml-commons-external, what ant-core version do you have? how bout java-check-environment and java-1.5-fixer does it want to rebuild anything?

[Comment 5 Vinz 2006-12-23 11:14:39 UTC]

Thanks for your help.
java-check-environment and java-1.5-fixer say everything is fine(java-check-enviroment just wanted me to add sun-jdk 1.4.2-12) and my ant-core version is 1.6.5-r14, I think that is the most current version on x86.

If thats the simplest solution, I will just change to the sun-jdk.

[Comment 6 Vlastimil Babka (Caster) (RETIRED) 2007-01-10 16:28:38 UTC]

I was unable to reproduce this only with xerces (SLOT=2) installed but xml-commons-external-1.3* not. I don't see how this can happen, because xerces deps contain xml-commons-external. Perhaps you had some very old version that's no longer in tree and that had deps broken?

If you want to investigate this more, post what versions of xerces and xml-commons-external are(were) installed. For now I'm marking it WORKSFORME.

In any case it's problem with ant itself and should happen with any other package, not just commons-collections (it fails to parse the build.xml file itself).