[TriLUG] Ant is broken now..

[Robert Ryals]

Brian Henning wrote:

>Hey,
>  Anyone out there with strong ant experience?  When I downloaded it some
>time ago to build a particular package, it worked beautifully.  Now, for
>some reason I'm having difficulty tracking down, ant won't run (building the
>same package as when it worked properly); it terminates very prematurely
>with the following stack trace:
>
>java.lang.InstantiationException: org.apache.tools.ant.Main
>        at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:293)
>        at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:261)
>        at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:195)
>        at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:55)
>
>To the best of my knowledge, the environment variables haven't changed since
>the last successful operation of ant.  I have installed a few extension
>libraries such as Xerces and JDOM..  Could there be some sort of conflict
>caused by one of these jars?  I'm really at a loss here, and need to be able
>to have ant work..
>
>TIA,
>~Brian Henning
>  
>
What version of Ant ?  

Do you have a CLASSPATH environment variable set ?

Ant does include a version of Xerces so there may be a conflict there - 
try *not* setting your CLASSPATH variable before running Ant.

Robert Ryals