junit-3.8.1 and ant's lib path

[kelvin]

I ran into this problem and I wanted to post the answer, just in case somebody runs into the same problem.

junit-3.8.1 doesn't seem to add itself to the ant classpath in /usr/share/ant/package.env. So if you run ant expecting junit.jar to be on the classpath, it won't be until you fix the package.env file.

It does add a symlink to junit.jar at /usr/share/ant/lib, which is the correct behavior. However, gentoo's /usr/bin/ant looks at `java-config --classpath=ant` for the libraries to add to the classpath.

oro is in the CLASSPATH specified in package.env. So I looked at the oro ebuild file to see if I could figure out what might be added to junit to "fix" this. However, a quick look over by someone not familiar with all of the ebuild commands didn't reveal much.

-Kelvin

[cdmstro]

Looking at the ant ebuild, I saw that this is where the additional packages you have installed are actually added to the package.env for ant. If you had previously installed oro, then the oro.jar is added to your classpath.

You can use java-config to set the user classpath to add the junit, oro, or other jar files to your user classpath

[kelvin]

Thanks for the information.