[kepler-dev] Build Problems

[Matthew Jones]

Hi Ken,

I wanted to follow up on your build problems with ant and Eclipse.  The 
Kepler Eclipse instructions used to indicate that you need to exclude 
kepler/ptII/build from the Eclipse build in Kepler if you have run the 
'ant' build of ptolemy.  Derik and I discussed it and agreed there is no 
  harm in excluding that dir all the time in Eclipse, so people who 
happen to do the ant build in the same working directory as the Eclipse 
build will not run into the problems that you did.  So, we have modified 
the .classpath.default file to exclude the ptII/build/ directory all the 
time in the Eclipse kepler build.  Hopefully this will eliminate some 
headaches for people that are starting with the build. We have updated 
the Eclipse instructions on the web to reflect these changes.

Thanks for your persistence and for helping us to understand some of the 
issues you have encountered while starting up with Kepler development. 
We will be doing a lot more work in the near future on improving the 
build and development process, so your feedback has been valuable.

Regards,
Matt

Kenneth Evans wrote:
> The other problem is getting **/build/ in the exclude list.  The directions
> say to do this for ptII.  My experience (which should probably be verified)
> is that (1) this gets overwritten and (2) it needs to be done in the Kepler
> project, too.  If you don't so this, you get thousands of errors (and the
> launcher fails).  If you do, you get 11, which is much nicer.

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