>>> Unpacking jakarta-ant-1.5-src.tar.gz >>> Source unpacked. ... Bootstrapping Ant Distribution ... Compiling Ant Classes BuildPath: No such file or directory BuildPath: using /opt/ibm-jdk-1.3.1/bin/ex BuildPath: No such file or directory BuildPath: using /opt/ibm-jdk-1.3.1/bi Can't find libjvm.so ... Failed compiling Ant classes ! Bootstrap FAILED >>> Install ant-1.5 into /var/tmp/portage/ant-1.5/image/ category dev-java cp: cannot stat `build/lib/*.jar': No such file or directory chmod: failed to get attributes of `/var/tmp/portage/ant-1.5/image//usr/share/ant/lib//*.jar': No such file or directory strip: >>> Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/ant-1.5/image/ >>> Merging dev-java/ant-1.5 to / --- /usr/ --- /usr/bin/ >>> /usr/bin/ant --- /usr/share/ <--------------- merges along just fine ---------> only, it doesn't work: bert@saphir rhdb-explain $ ant Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/tools/ant/Main bert@saphir rhdb-explain $
I have tested it with all jdk from version 1.3 to 1.4 and with latest ant available version. If you are able to reproduce this again, please feel free to reopen the bug. Im closing it since i was unable to reproduce it.