[Biojava-l] ant problem!

Geetha Vasudevan geethav@incyte.com
Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:01:14 -0800


Thanks for following this up. I have to somehow get past this hurdle to do more
interesting things.
I run Java 1.2.2 right now. Pl let me know if 1.3.1 would help resolve this.
thanks again.

Thomas Down wrote:

> Hi, and sorry you're having trouble compiling -- we've found
> ant pretty reliable in the past.
>
> The message you point to looks rather different to the
> problem you seem to be having.  From the log you originally
> posted, it looks like the (classic) compiler is being started
> successfully, but then throwing up some errors during compilation.
> My suspicion is that Michael is right and switching to the
> modern compiler will help.
>
> What version of Java do you have installed?
>
>     Thomas.
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 01:58:27PM -0800, Geetha Vasudevan wrote:
> > I see that installing ant has been a problem for a few others apart from me!
> > it gives problem even with 1.3 and 1.4.
> >
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/ant-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg11048.html
> >
> > "Michael E. Smoot" wrote:
> >
> > > Geetha,
> > >
> > > My only guess at this point is that the compiler you're using might be the
> > > problem since its 1.2.? instead of 1.3 or 1.4.  There is a note here:
> > > http://biojava.org/docs/started.html about problems with 1.2.
> > >
> > > If you can't compile the code or get a new vm, you might try just
> > > downloading and using the binaries.
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Geetha Vasudevan wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> >
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