[Bug 490831] Re: Ant is completely broken when xerces is installed in Karmic.

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: ant (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Ant is completely broken when xerces is installed in Karmic.

Status in “ant” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ant

  On two different machines (home and work) I upgraded from Jaunty to
  Karmic, and the ant build tool started reporting this error:

  ---------------------
  rosejn at leaf:~/projects/overtone$ ant
  Buildfile: build.xml

  BUILD FAILED
  /home/rosejn/projects/overtone/build.xml:1: Unexpected element "{}HTML" {antlib:org.apache.tools.ant}HTML

  Total time: 0 seconds
  ------------------

  No matter which project I try to run it with, I get this error.  If I
  clear my CLASSPATH environment variable then it works.  I narrowed the
  problem down to the libxerces2-java package, so after doing this:

  sudo rm /usr/share/java/xercesImpl*

  I can correctly run ant again.  Xerces is no longer necessary with
  recent JVMs anyway, so it should be taken out of the dependency tree
  for new versions of ant.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Tue Dec  1 15:30:41 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  Package: ant 1.7.1-4
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
  SourcePackage: ant
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686

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