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Apache Ant 1.5 Manual

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This is the manual for version 1.5 of Apache Ant. If your version + of ant (as verified with ant -version) is older or newer than this + version then this is not the correct manual set. Please use the documentation + appropriate to your current version.

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Feedback

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Feedback and Troubleshooting

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If things do not work, especially simple things like ant -version, + then something is wrong with your configuration. Before filing bug reports and + emailing all the ant mailing lists

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  1. Check your environment variables. Are ANT_HOME and JAVA_HOME correct? If + they have quotes or trailing slashes, remove them.
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  2. Unset CLASSPATH; if that is wrong things go horribly wrong. Ant does not + need the CLASSPATH variable defined to anything to work.
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  3. Make sure there are no versions of crimson.jar or other XML parsers in JRE/ext
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  4. Is your path correct? is Ant on it? What about JDK/bin? have you tested + this? If you are using Jikes, is it on the path? A createProcess error (especially + with ID=2 on windows) usually means executable not found on the path.
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  5. Which version of ant are you running? Other applications distribute a copy + -it may be being picked up by accident.
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  6. If a task is failing to run is optional.jar in ANT_HOME/lib? Are there any + libraries which it depends on missing?
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  7. If a task doesn't do what you expect, run ant -verbose or ant + -debug to see what is happening
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If you can't fix your problem, start with the Ant + User Mailing List . These are other ant users who will help you learn to + use ant. If they cannot fix it then someone may suggest filing a bug report, + which will escalate the issue. Remember of course, that support, like all open + source development tasks, is voluntary. If you haven't invested time in helping + yourself by following the steps above, it is unlikely that anyone will invest + the time in helping you.

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Also, if you don't understand something, the Ant + User Mailing List is the place to ask questions. Not the developer list, + nor the individuals whose names appears in the source and documentation. If + they answered all such emails, nobody would have any time to improve ant.

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