Ant itself does not need java compiler to run. Following is the message I get.
$ ant Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/lib/tools.jar Buildfile: build.xml does not exist! Build failed You can see that while tools.jar is not present, ant tried to lookup build.xml in current directory. Which means ant is running fine. You will need tools.jar only when you decide to use tasks that are accomplished with JDK ex. compilations, javadoc generation etc. For the tasks which don't need JDK ant will work just fine without tools.jar ex. creating directories, copying files, archiving directories etc. java2-compiler can be added as 'Recommends' to ant as javac is in my opinion most frequently used task. But the decision needs to be taken by package maintainers. Onkar Onkar _______________________________________________ pkg-java-maintainers mailing list pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers
