Cannot compile NB on a new Mac

[Tomasz Slota]

I was trying to compile NB on my new Mac machine with Apple's default  
installation of Java and dev tools and it failed with a message:

compile:
     [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/tomslot/SUN/src/main/api.visual/build/
classes
     [javac] Compiling 207 source files to /Users/tomslot/SUN/src/main/
api.visual/build/classes
    [repeat]
   [nbmerge] Failed to build target: all-api.visual

(...)

/Users/tomslot/SUN/src/main/nbbuild/templates/common.xml:126: Error  
starting modern compiler

I am a long time Mac user, but I haven't come across this problem  
before. I guess I am using a wrong version of some tools. Anyways, it  
would be nice if the build system could check system compatibly  
beforehand and produce a meaningful error message.

I am using

$ javac -version
javac 1.5.0_13

$ ant -version
Apache Ant version 1.7.0 compiled on February 29 2008

-TS

[Rudolf Balada]

Hi Tomasz,

Tomasz Slota wrote:
> $ ant -version
> Apache Ant version 1.7.0 compiled on February 29 2008
Original Ant outputs different compilation date, is it possible?

Apache Ant version 1.7.0 compiled on December 13 2006


-R

[Tomasz Slota]

>>
>> Apache Ant version 1.7.0 compiled on February 29 2008
> Original Ant outputs different compilation date, is it possible?
>

Well it is a fact :-) I was thinking perhaps NB build system picks  
Java 6 to do build, although Java 5 is the default on my system. Do  
you think this could be the problem?

-TS

[Jesse Glick]

Tomasz Slota wrote:
> /Users/tomslot/SUN/src/main/nbbuild/templates/common.xml:126: Error starting modern compiler

Maybe some problem finding com.sun.tools.javac.Main in Classes.jar or
wherever Macs keep it? Does ant -v show something more informative?

[Tomasz Slota]

ant -v made me realize compiler was going out of memory...
Thanks,
-TS


On Jun 20, 2008, at 4:40 PM, Jesse Glick wrote:

> Tomasz Slota wrote:
>> /Users/tomslot/SUN/src/main/nbbuild/templates/common.xml:126: Error  
>> starting modern compiler
>
> Maybe some problem finding com.sun.tools.javac.Main in Classes.jar  
> or wherever Macs keep it? Does ant -v show something more informative?
>