On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Peter W. Draper wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Mark Taylor wrote:
>
> > Most of the starjava set now builds, installs and tests using either
> > Java 1.4(.1) or 1.5(.0) therefore. There is still one problem however.
> >
> > The "javadocs" and "test" targets for treeview fail at 1.5, again
> > because of circular dependencies. In both cases it sits there
> > for a while and then throws an OutOfMemoryError.
> > I'm reasonably sure this is because the treeview's installed.classpath
> > contains both splat.jar and topcat.jar, while the manifests of those
> > two have class-paths which point to ../treeview/treeview.jar.
> > The rest of the build is happy with this, but javadocs & test fail.
> > Peter, can you think of a good way round this? If it's going to be
> > a pain to do it properly, I could just construct a class path by hand
> > in treeview's build.xml for use with the javadoc and test targets
> > which exclude splat & topcat. The right answer of course is to have
> > treeview split into a library and applications package - it was getting
> > perilously close to the top of my to-do list before VOGON came along.
> > If you think it's the only reasonable way to proceed though I could
> > bite the bullet anyway.
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> we could work around this kind of problem at the application level by
> adding optional parts to the CLASSPATH in the startup scripts (this would
> work for the SPLAT/Treeview problem as the linkage between SPLAT and
> Treeview is done by reflection, looks like that is also true for TOPCAT),
> but that wouldn't be much help if the optional parts were needed by the
> unit tests. For that we'd have to do what you say and add these into just
> the tests-classpath property and not the full classpath.
The trouble with this is that it means you have to use the startup
script (or really know what you're doing). I generally advertise
that the startup script is just a convenience, and you can use the
jar file directly if you want.
Hmm.
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Mark Taylor Starlink Programmer Physics, Bristol University, UK
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