The symbolic link sounds like a nice trick, I'll try that. In the meantime, I was expecting something more mainstream. Also you guys realize that If i remove the dependency to tools.jar, my build will work on Mac but will stop working on Windows and Linux.
rgds JT On 6/11/07, Nathan Maves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I agree with Gregory, I would remove the dependency all-together. Everything should just work. On 6/11/07, Gregory Kick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The deal is that tools.jar is in classes.jar (i think) and is always > on the classpath. If you just exclude the dependency it should work. > > On 6/11/07, Nathan Maves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What causes your project to have a dependency on tools.jar? > > > > I have been using maven on a mac for a while now and have never had to > deal > > with the tools.jar. > > > > Nathan > > > > On 6/11/07, Jerome Thibaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > Discovering the joy of coding Java in a Mac environment I learned that > > > there > > > is no tools.jar in the Mac version of the JDK. > > > Consequence is, my projects having dependencies on tools.jar fail to > > > build. > > > > > > So for the project with a direct dependency, I used Profile > successfully. > > > I created one profile triggered by the OS family and everything went > > > smooth. > > > > > > Now I got 2 problems: > > > - it seems that, when inherited through transitive dependency, the > > > profile trigger is not taken into account > > > and tools.jar is added to the dependencies list anyway. > > > - I got an ant plugin setup in the build section with tools.jarin > the > > > dependencies section of the plugin. > > > What do I use to make the dependency conditional there? > > > > > > > > > thanks in advance > > > > > > Jerome > > > > > > > > -- > Gregory Kick > http://kickstyle.net/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
