Re: tools.jar not found

Grüner Heinrich <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.ant.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Run it with the jdk.
Am 27.04.2015 um 18:26 schrieb John J. Hughes II:
> All,
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> I have searched online and can't fine and answer so please bear with me.
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> When I run ANT it says it can't find tools in the JRE lib, why is it looking
> there?
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> If I copy tools.jar from the JDK to the JRE lib it works fine but that will
> break on the next update so I would prefer to fix it correctly.
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> I have rebooted and retested.
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> There are no extra JDK or JRE values in the path, path simplified to only
> show useful values.
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> I dumped the SET values to text files and search and don't fine any
> references to JRE there either.
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> In settings:
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> PATH = .;%JAVA_HOME%\bin;%ANT_HOME%\bin;
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> Converts to:
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> PATH  = .;C:\Program
> Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_05\bin;C:\devenv\apache-ant-1.9.4\bin;
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> C:\Projects>SET JAVA_HOME
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> JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_05
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> C:\Projects>SET ANT_HOME
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> ANT_HOME=C:\devenv\apache-ant-1.9.4
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> Error:
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> C:\Projects>ant -version
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> Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in C:\Program
> Files\Java\jre1.8.0_45\lib\tools.jar
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> Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.4 compiled on April 29 2014
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> So what am I doing wrong, thanks.
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> John
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