nbbuild/netbeans is the NetBeans installation that is created when you build Apache NetBeans. You can run it by running ‘ant tryme’ in the root of the clone or by running the executable in nbbuild/netbeans/bin.
Hope that helps, Gj On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 at 22:22, mlist <ml...@riseup.net> wrote: > John, > > Thanks for this info! > > Your process is the same I use but it seems the key which helped was: > > > export ANT_HOME=$HOME/opt/apache-ant-1.10.7 > > This made the proper version of my ant (built from source) to show up > and the build of NetBeans was successful with jdk8! > > Questions: > > 1. I notice that my old version of NetBeans has the structure which I > see in 'nbbuild/netbeans'. Does this mean I need only this subdirectory > (and not the whole 'nbbuild' dir)? > > 2. I did't quite understand this: > > On Wed, 02 Oct 2019 22:50:55 +0200 Matthias Bläsing wrote: > > > While netbeans can be build with JDK 9, that is not the production > > configuration, so you could introduce dependencies on newer > > implementations without realising it, before the problem is caught by > > the CI pipeline. > > (a) What is "CI pipeline"? > (b) What are these dependencies and what would be the negative result in > introducing them? > > 3. Assuming the answer to 1. is 'yes' I ran the netbeans binary and it gave > me some warnings: > > $/opt/netbeans/bin/netbeans > WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred > WARNING: Illegal reflective access by > org.netbeans.swing.plaf.gtk.ThemeValue > (jar:file:/opt/netbeans/platform/modules/org-netbeans-swing-plaf.jar!/) to > method > javax.swing.plaf.synth.SynthStyle.getColorForState(javax.swing.plaf.synth.SynthContext,javax.swing.plaf.synth.ColorType) > WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of > org.netbeans.swing.plaf.gtk.ThemeValue > WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal > reflective access operations > WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release > > Why is that and need I do something about it? > > 4. In NB's options I see that Ant Home is set to > '/opt/netbeans/extide/ant' (which is 1.10.4). Should I set it to > /opt/ant (which is my build of 1.10.7 and the one used for building NB > itself)? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > >
