Bug#238187: wrong classpath in new ant - script

[Arnaud Vandyck]

Stefan Gybas <sgybas@debian.org> writes:

> M. Dietrich wrote:
>
>> the script /usr/share/ant/bin/ant seems to set the classpath wrong -
>> bcel isn't useable anymore while ant 1.5.4-3 did everything fine
>
> This is the normal behaviour from upstream: You need to manually add
> external JARs (e.g. bcel.jar) to your class path. Or you can create a
> symlink in /usr/share/ant/lib so it gets automatically added.
>
> I don't know how this should be solved differently: I can't add all
> possible externals JARs to /usr/share/ant/lib in the Debian package. If
> I did, I would have to depend on these packages which other people don't
> like (see the recent thread on -java).

Stefan,

Maybe you can reassign the bug to bcel so bcel can add the symlink?

Just my 0.2EuroCents ;-)

Cheers,

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