Eclipse ant support apparently missing

[Rob Scala]

I recently installed eclipse on my f14 box, and I can't get ant support
to work.  No ant preferences.  No ant editor.

Am I missing some package?  Here is what I have installed:

eclipse-platform-3.6.1-6.1.fc14.x86_64
eclipse-jdt-3.6.1-6.1.fc14.x86_64
eclipse-subclipse-1.6.16-1.fc14.noarch
tomcat5-jasper-eclipse-5.5.27-7.4.fc12.noarch
eclipse-swt-3.6.1-6.1.fc14.x86_64
eclipse-rcp-3.6.1-6.1.fc14.x86_64
icu4j-eclipse-4.2.1-1.fc14.x86_64
eclipse-gef-3.6.1-1.fc14.noarch
eclipse-svnkit-1.3.3-5.fc14.noarch

Thanks for your help,

Rob

[Mat Booth]

On 12 March 2011 02:08, Rob Scala <rob(a)scalasystems.com&gt; wrote:
>  I recently installed eclipse on my f14 box, and I can't get ant
> support
>  to work.  No ant preferences.  No ant editor.
>
>  Am I missing some package?  Here is what I have installed:
>
>  eclipse-platform-3.6.1-6.1.fc14.x86_64
>  eclipse-jdt-3.6.1-6.1.fc14.x86_64
>  eclipse-subclipse-1.6.16-1.fc14.noarch
>  tomcat5-jasper-eclipse-5.5.27-7.4.fc12.noarch
>  eclipse-swt-3.6.1-6.1.fc14.x86_64
>  eclipse-rcp-3.6.1-6.1.fc14.x86_64
>  icu4j-eclipse-4.2.1-1.fc14.x86_64
>  eclipse-gef-3.6.1-1.fc14.noarch
>  eclipse-svnkit-1.3.3-5.fc14.noarch
>
>  Thanks for your help,
>
>  Rob
>
>  

What do you mean by ant support? You should be able to right-click an
ant script in your workspace and go "Run as"-->"Ant Build"

-- 
Mat Booth
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora

[Rob Scala]

On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 20:22 +0000, Mat Booth wrote:
>  On 12 March 2011 02:08, Rob Scala <rob(a)scalasystems.com&gt;
> wrote:
>  > I recently installed eclipse on my f14 box, and I can't get ant support
>  > to work.  No ant preferences.  No ant editor.
>  >
>  > Am I missing some package?  Here is what I have installed:
>  >
>  > eclipse-platform-3.6.1-6.1.fc14.x86_64
>  > eclipse-jdt-3.6.1-6.1.fc14.x86_64
>  > eclipse-subclipse-1.6.16-1.fc14.noarch
>  > tomcat5-jasper-eclipse-5.5.27-7.4.fc12.noarch
>  > eclipse-swt-3.6.1-6.1.fc14.x86_64
>  > eclipse-rcp-3.6.1-6.1.fc14.x86_64
>  > icu4j-eclipse-4.2.1-1.fc14.x86_64
>  > eclipse-gef-3.6.1-1.fc14.noarch
>  > eclipse-svnkit-1.3.3-5.fc14.noarch
>  >
>  > Thanks for your help,
>  >
>  > Rob
>  >
>  >
>  
>  
>  What do you mean by ant support? You should be able to right-click an
>  ant script in your workspace and go "Run as"-->"Ant Build"
>   
No, "Run As" on build.xml does not have an "Ant Build" option either.

It seems like there is a plugin missing or an exception loading the
plugin.  But I understand that ant support is included in the base
package.

I tried removing ./.eclipse and my workspace, and reinstalling all of
eclipse.  Still no luck.  I also ran a fresh install from yum on a
different machine (CentOS 5.4), and all the ant features were there.

Strange - I must be missing something simple.

[Mat Booth]

On 12 March 2011 20:43, Rob Scala <rob(a)scalasystems.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 20:22 +0000, Mat Booth wrote:
> > On 12 March 2011 02:08, Rob Scala <rob(a)scalasystems.com&gt; wrote:
> > > I recently installed eclipse on my f14 box, and I can't get ant support
> > > to work.  No ant preferences.  No ant editor.
> > >
> > > Am I missing some package?  Here is what I have installed:
> > >
> > > eclipse-platform-3.6.1-6.1.fc14.x86_64
> > > eclipse-jdt-3.6.1-6.1.fc14.x86_64
> > > eclipse-subclipse-1.6.16-1.fc14.noarch
> > > tomcat5-jasper-eclipse-5.5.27-7.4.fc12.noarch
> > > eclipse-swt-3.6.1-6.1.fc14.x86_64
> > > eclipse-rcp-3.6.1-6.1.fc14.x86_64
> > > icu4j-eclipse-4.2.1-1.fc14.x86_64
> > > eclipse-gef-3.6.1-1.fc14.noarch
> > > eclipse-svnkit-1.3.3-5.fc14.noarch
> > >
> > > Thanks for your help,
> > >
> > > Rob
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > What do you mean by ant support? You should be able to right-click an
> > ant script in your workspace and go "Run as"-->"Ant Build"
> >
>
>  No, "Run As" on build.xml does not have an "Ant Build" option
> either.
>
>  It seems like there is a plugin missing or an exception loading the
>  plugin.  But I understand that ant support is included in the base
>  package.
>
>  I tried removing ./.eclipse and my workspace, and reinstalling all of
>  eclipse.  Still no luck.  I also ran a fresh install from yum on a
>  different machine (CentOS 5.4), and all the ant features were there.
>
>  Strange - I must be missing something simple.
>
>
>  
Is there anything interesting in the log file?

It's located in /path/to/workspace/.metadata/.log


-- 
Mat Booth
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora

[Rob Scala]

On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 20:46 +0000, Mat Booth wrote:
>  On 12 March 2011 20:43, Rob Scala <rob(a)scalasystems.com&gt;
> wrote:
>  > On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 20:22 +0000, Mat Booth wrote:
>  >> On 12 March 2011 02:08, Rob Scala <rob(a)scalasystems.com&gt; wrote:
>  >> > I recently installed eclipse on my f14 box, and I can't get ant
> support
>  >> > to work.  No ant preferences.  No ant editor.
>  >> >
>  >> > Am I missing some package?  Here is what I have installed:
>  >> >
>  >> > eclipse-platform-3.6.1-6.1.fc14.x86_64
>  >> > eclipse-jdt-3.6.1-6.1.fc14.x86_64
>  >> > eclipse-subclipse-1.6.16-1.fc14.noarch
>  >> > tomcat5-jasper-eclipse-5.5.27-7.4.fc12.noarch
>  >> > eclipse-swt-3.6.1-6.1.fc14.x86_64
>  >> > eclipse-rcp-3.6.1-6.1.fc14.x86_64
>  >> > icu4j-eclipse-4.2.1-1.fc14.x86_64
>  >> > eclipse-gef-3.6.1-1.fc14.noarch
>  >> > eclipse-svnkit-1.3.3-5.fc14.noarch
>  >> >
>  >> > Thanks for your help,
>  >> >
>  >> > Rob
>  >> >
>  >> >
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> What do you mean by ant support? You should be able to right-click an
>  >> ant script in your workspace and go "Run as"-->"Ant
> Build"
>  >>
>  >
>  > No, "Run As" on build.xml does not have an "Ant Build" option
> either.
>  >
>  > It seems like there is a plugin missing or an exception loading the
>  > plugin.  But I understand that ant support is included in the base
>  > package.
>  >
>  > I tried removing ./.eclipse and my workspace, and reinstalling all of
>  > eclipse.  Still no luck.  I also ran a fresh install from yum on a
>  > different machine (CentOS 5.4), and all the ant features were there.
>  >
>  > Strange - I must be missing something simple.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  
>  Is there anything interesting in the log file?
>  
>  It's located in /path/to/workspace/.metadata/.log 
Before I cleaned everything and reinstalled, the log contained these
three items (multiple times):

---------------- .log entries --------------

!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 4 0 2011-03-09 20:05:05.798
!MESSAGE Unable to create editor ID
org.eclipse.ant.ui.internal.editor.AntEditor: No editor descriptor for
id org.eclipse.ant.ui.internal.editor.AntEditor

and

!SUBENTRY 2 org.eclipse.ui 4 4 2011-03-09 20:05:11.139
!MESSAGE Could not create view: org.eclipse.ant.ui.views.AntView

and

!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.resources 4 2 2011-03-09 22:59:23.369
!MESSAGE Problems occurred when invoking code from plug-in:
"org.eclipse.core.resources".
!STACK 1
org.eclipse.debug.core.DebugException: Launch configuration type id
"org.eclipse.ant.AntBuilderLaunchConfigurationType" does not exist.
Possible causes:
        Missing specification of a launch type (missing plug-in)
        Incorrect launch configuration XML

---------------------------

After cleaning and reinstalling, the log is basically empty.  So the
above errors my be red herrings.   I tried creating a new user and
running eclipse, but no luck (no ant preferences, no ant builder, no ant
editor).  I tried installing Sun's jdk, and got the same result.

I tried to find a difference between my machine's eclipse installation
and another f14 installation (with working ant features), without luck.
The /usr/lib64/eclipse tree looks the same regarding ant jars.

It seems like the ant jars are not being recognized on my machine.
Possibly a classpath issue.  But I can't see the difference between the
two machines.

[Andrew Overholt]

* Rob Scala <rob(a)scalasystems.com&gt; [2011-03-11 21:09]:
>  I recently installed eclipse on my f14 box, and I can't get ant
> support
>  to work.  No ant preferences.  No ant editor.
>  
>  Am I missing some package?  Here is what I have installed: 
Can you try installing eclipse-pde?

Andrew

[Rob Scala]

On 03/14/2011 02:20 PM, Andrew Overholt wrote:
>  * Rob Scala<rob(a)scalasystems.com>  [2011-03-11 21:09]:
> > I recently installed eclipse on my f14 box, and I can't get ant support
> > to work.  No ant preferences.  No ant editor.
> >
> > Am I missing some package?  Here is what I have installed:
>
>  Can you try installing eclipse-pde?
>
>  Andrew
>  
Yes, that fixed it.

Why is pde required?

[Andrew Overholt]

* Rob Scala <rob(a)scalasystems.com&gt; [2011-03-14 15:51]:
>  On 03/14/2011 02:20 PM, Andrew Overholt wrote:
>  >* Rob Scala&lt;rob(a)scalasystems.com&gt;  [2011-03-11 21:09]:
>  >>I recently installed eclipse on my f14 box, and I can't get ant support
>  >>to work.  No ant preferences.  No ant editor.
>  >>
>  >>Am I missing some package?  Here is what I have installed:
>  >
>  >Can you try installing eclipse-pde?
>  >
>  >Andrew
>  >
>  
>  Yes, that fixed it.
>  
>  Why is pde required? 
It's not, but there's a problem with something being put into the pde
sub-package when it shouldn't be.  This messes up a lot of the things
that are installed into dropins (everything but the platform itself).
There are a number of related reports for this:

  Eclipse won't load other plugins
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665249
  
  Missing components for Mylyn and PyDev
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684894

... and probably a few more.  It *appears* that this only happens on
x86_64 but Alex is looking into it.  There's also the issue of things
only showing up after the second startup of Eclipse.

Andrew