[Libreoffice] Is ant a pre-requisite for java support?

[Wols Lists]

On 02/12/10 14:09, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> Hi Wols, *,
>
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Wols Lists <antlists at youngman.org.uk> wrote:
>> On the old build system I always had to do --without-junit, implying
>> that I had --with-java.
>>
>> On the new system I need --without-java or it bombs with "can't find ant"
> Ant is required to build some java-stuff, and was so before.
>
> junit is not required for building, but for running tests after the build.
>
> So given you have ant installed, as you could build before, the
> interesting question is: Why can't configure find it.

Because it ISN'T installed :-) I've checked. I don't even think java is
*explicitly* installed on my system, it just got pulled by something else.

> Or even: As ant can be downloaded as part of download: Why isn't it
> falling back to that?
>
It seems like that is no longer the case. Can we go back to that?


> ciao
> Christian
>
Cheers,
Wol