Bug 35992

Summary:	Gentoo-version of Ant lacks basic optional modules like junit
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Stig E Sandø <stig>
Component:	[OLD] Development	Assignee:	Java team <java>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	Bert.Van.Vreckem
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Stig E Sandø 2003-12-17 05:39:33 UTC

Ant has several optional tasks, but one of the most basic and central to java-development, the junit test-framework, is missing completely from the optional.jar in gentoo.  It really should be there. 

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Adrian Almenar 2003-12-19 21:55:24 UTC

Moving this again to java@gentoo.org, so everyone out there can help.

Comment 2 Bert Van Vreckem 2004-01-11 03:16:35 UTC

I don't think I agree. Indeed, junit is a must-have, but in the end, it's totally independent from ant. Additionally, emerging junit when ant was already installed should create a symbolic link in the ${ANT_HOME}/lib directory, thus enabling you to use the junit optional task.

However, this does not appear to be working properly (see e.g. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=29411&highlight=ant+junit,
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=92756&highlight=ant+junit,
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=34106&highlight=ant+junit, and
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=59185&highlight=ant+junit)

According to one of the cited threads, when you execute
  ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge ant junit
JUnit should be enabled in ant.

To summarise: the issue is not that Ant doesn't include must-have optional tasks. However, when supported utilities (such as junit, jdepend, etc.) are installed, Ant does not automatically make the associated optional tasks available.

Comment 3 Adrian Almenar 2004-01-16 21:43:19 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 35921 ***