Build failure missing default manifest

"netmackan" <[email protected]> Mon, 01 Jan 2018 17:37:30 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.devel
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I got the same build failure and managed to work around it by using the Apache Ant binary distribution from ant.apache.org instead of the one in the Linux distribution. See: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-239