[Dspace-general] Failure on new 1.4.2 ant fresh_install - SOLVED!!

[Dan Scott]

On 11/09/2007, Christian Voelker <C.Voelker at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Am 11.09.2007 um 15:03 schrieb Munro, LG, Mr <munrol at sun.ac.za>:
>
> > WELL DONE Christian!!!
>
> Thanks. Glee.
>
> > I find it odd that on the very same VMware machine 1.3.2 compiled just
> > fine... but there you go.
>
> The build.xml was changed between 1.3.2 and 1.4.2 just as many other
> source files. That is what developers do. Now take look into *what*
> they had changed:
>
> <http://dspace.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dspace/branches/
> dspace-1_4_x/dspace/build.xml?r1=1410&r2=1780&pathrev=1780>
>
> You see that the block containing the regex was introduced then.
> Obviously, the regex functionality had not been used anywhere before.
> Just as the other fourty or fifty features mentioned in your
> diagnostics output that were missing on your system. As long as they
> did not get used and diagnostics were not run, you just could not see
> that these modules were missing. But you had a partial install of ant
> already then.
>
> There is no fault with anybody involved. Developers tell ant to be
> a requirement. If you download ant from the ant homepage, you get
> a complete ant as with most package managers. Debian/Ubuntu is
> different in that regard and the developers using other systems
> are not due to know that. As a user of Ubuntu, you have to find
> out about the specifics of this great platform. And in the end,
> although obviously not commonly used, the software works with
> your setup. Thats great I think (well its Java, too).

Ugh. I should have caught this problem, as I documented the Ubuntu
install (including the ant-optional.jar requirement) on the DSpace
wiki a year ago:

http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Installing_DSpace_on_Ubuntu_6.06_%28LTS%29

-- 
Dan Scott
Laurentian University