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| 11 | <h1><a name="feedback">Feedback</a> and Troubleshooting</h1>
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| 12 | <p>If things do not work, especially simple things like <tt>ant -version</tt>,
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| 13 | then something is wrong with your configuration. Before filing bug reports and
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| 14 | emailing all the ant mailing lists</p>
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| 15 | <ol>
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| 16 | <li>Check your environment variables. Are ANT_HOME and JAVA_HOME correct? If
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| 17 | they have quotes or trailing slashes, remove them.</li>
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| 18 | <li>Unset CLASSPATH; if that is wrong things go horribly wrong. Ant does not
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| 19 | need the CLASSPATH variable defined to anything to work.</li>
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| 20 | <li>Make sure there are no versions of crimson.jar or other XML parsers in JRE/ext</li>
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| 21 | <li>Is your path correct? is Ant on it? What about JDK/bin? have you tested
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| 22 | this? If you are using Jikes, is it on the path? A createProcess error (especially
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| 23 | with ID=2 on windows) usually means executable not found on the path.</li>
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| 24 | <li>Which version of ant are you running? Other applications distribute a copy
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| 25 | -it may be being picked up by accident.</li>
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| 26 | <li>If a task is failing to run is optional.jar in ANT_HOME/lib? Are there any
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| 27 | libraries which it depends on missing?</li>
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| 28 | <li>If a task doesn't do what you expect, run <tt>ant -verbose</tt> or <tt>ant
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| 29 | -debug</tt> to see what is happening</li>
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| 30 | </ol>
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| 31 | <p>If you can't fix your problem, start with the <a href="http://ant.apache.org/mail.html" target="_top">Ant
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| 32 | User Mailing List</a> . These are other ant users who will help you learn to
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| 33 | use ant. If they cannot fix it then someone may suggest filing a bug report,
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| 34 | which will escalate the issue. Remember of course, that support, like all open
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| 35 | source development tasks, is voluntary. If you haven't invested time in helping
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| 36 | yourself by following the steps above, it is unlikely that anyone will invest
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| 37 | the time in helping you. </p>
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| 38 | <p>Also, if you don't understand something, the <a href="http://ant.apache.org/mail.html" target="_top">Ant
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| 39 | User Mailing List</a> is the place to ask questions. Not the developer list,
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| 40 | nor the individuals whose names appears in the source and documentation. If
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| 41 | they answered all such emails, nobody would have any time to improve ant. </p>
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| 42 | <p>To provide feedback on this software, please subscribe to the <a href="http://ant.apache.org/mail.html" target="_top">Ant
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| 43 | User Mailing List</a> </p>
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| 44 |
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| 45 | <p>If you want to contribute to Ant or stay current with the latest
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| 46 | development, join the
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| 47 | <a href="http://ant.apache.org/mail.html" target="_top">Ant Development Mailing List</a>
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| 48 | </p>
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| 49 | <p>Archives of both lists can be found at <a
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| 50 | href="http://archive.covalent.net/" target="_top">http://archive.covalent.net/</a>. Many
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| 51 | thanks to Covalent Technologies. A searchable archive can be found at <a
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| 52 | href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com" target="_top">http://marc.theaimsgroup.com</a>. If
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| 53 | you know of any additional archive sites, please report them to the
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| 54 | lists.</p>
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| 55 | <hr>
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| 56 | <p align="center">Copyright © 2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights
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| 57 | Reserved.</p>
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