Ant problems abound tonight

[ringnebula]

I am working on porting zimbra to solaris/sparc right now and am running into some problems in the ZimbraServer and other java based areas see below:

# ant
Buildfile: build.xml

BUILD FAILED
file:/home/jacob/zimbra/main/ZimbraServer/build.xml:9: Unexpected element "exec"

Total time: 4 seconds

I am comfortable with the third party area rewriting makefiles and specs but I am totally clueless when it comes to java, ant, and the like. Any help here is much appreciated.

I am running Solaris 10 with a full developer install, ant 1.5.4, gcc3, and java 1.5.0_06.

[KevinH]

Which ant target are you trying to run? "ant dist"? Something else?

What is on line 9 of that file?

[ringnebula]

It doesn't seem to matter what I target but lets use ant dist for example. Here are the first 11 or 12 lines of the file:

<project name="ZimbraServer" default="jar">

        <property environment="env" />

        <!--
             This machine's hostname.  Use ZIMBRA_HOSTNAME environment variable
             if set.  If not, use "hostname" command output.
        -->
        <exec executable="hostname" outputproperty="exec.hostname"/>
        <condition property="zimbra.server.hostname" value="${env.ZIMBRA_HOSTNAME}">
                <isset property="env.ZIMBRA_HOSTNAME"/>
        </condition>

[KevinH]

Must be some problem with ANT + Solaris.. if you just set the env var and remove that line you should be ok for now.

[ringnebula]

I thought of setting the vars myself already but alas, it doesn't work. What does however is using blastwave's ant or instead of the ant shipped with solaris.

All the java components so far build fine with the blastwave ant.

Another note for my how-to.