Re: Starting to move Gump to using Java 11

Mark Thomas <[email protected]> Thu, 19 Aug 2021 17:37:10 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.gump
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 19/08/2021 13:39, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> On 2021-08-19, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> 
>> It looks as if you may have uncovered a bug in Ant's build,
> 
> no, the Gump descriptor has been broken before.
> 
> While compiling the tests Ant didn't see the main classes it had just
> compiled. It could only see those of the bootstrap-ant project.
> 
> The only explanation of why it has worked before I have is that
> bootstrap-ant has contained the classes that depend on jakarta-regexp
> before and now no longer does. And as Xalan contains the regex classes
> (I think the build has used the "unbundled" Xalan jar which does not
> contain regexp because of this, may be wrong) the classes and tests
> would be compiled now.
> 
> Anyway, the "ant" project has just been built successfully. Let's see
> what breaks next.

Many thanks for cleaning up the mess I created. Things are looking a lot 
better now.

It looks like Checkstyle may still have an issue and then I'll have some 
genuine Tomcat issues to fix.

Cheers,

Mark