I've done a bit more on this - I believe it is the 'xjc' task that causes the problem. I've added my information to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-239. Hope it helps.
On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 at 11:02 Peter Hull <peterhul...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 at 08:51 Emilian Bold <emilian.b...@protonmail.ch> > wrote: > >> Would be nice to also see this bug reported to SUSE so we can reference >> it in the future. >> >> I've looked into this a bit - I think we would need to provide a bit more > information to SUSE/Fedora to help them take some action. Unfortunately I > have not found the root cause yet. I am assuming that Debian-based distros > are OK and fedora-based ones are not, though there is the complication that > Debian has version 1.9 and Fedora 1.10. Neither distro makes many changes > to the stock ant source code. > Fedora applies a patch to remove setting the classpath from the ant.jar > manifest, details here: > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/ant.git/tree/ > Debian has some patches which are to help reproducible builds. > https://packages.debian.org/stretch/ant > > So it seems to me the problem lies in the classpath patch. > > I have been testing with FC27. If I run ant from the netbeans directory it > fails building the websvc.saas.api module as previously noted; it can't > find the default manifest. This I tracked down to the call to > org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Manifest.getDefaultManifest() ( > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=ant.git;a=blob;f=src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Manifest.java;h=483d8c689ce35e28cf5118cc13c4c80c2db99361;hb=HEAD#l786 > ) > If I re-run ant (without ant clean) I get a different error, which > shouldn't happen. I should get the same error repeatedly. > > Also note that the Manifest class is in the same jar as the default > manifest, so, if it were a classpath thing, I can't understand why > Manifest.class is accessible but the default manifest is not. > > That's as far as I have got, if anyone has any insights as to how this can > happen please let me know. > > Peter > >
