[slf4j-dev] "mvn test" on a non-Sun JVM

[Ceki Gulcu]

Hi Thorbjørn,

Why is Hudson the "Extensible continuous integration engine" relevant in 
relation with building slf4j or more precisely running "mvn test"?

Cheers,

Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote:
> I did some research to see if I could run automated testing on a clean 
> room JVM, but it turned out to be a bit harder than originally expected, 
> as most prepackaged java stuff in one way or another pulls in OpenJDK.
> 
> The most important result was that GNU Classpath is missing JAXP-classes 
> needed to run Hudson (which was I was looking for running), and that the 
> maven plugins expect quite a bit of Sunnish file layout.  I was 
> incapable of making the compile:compiler target look in ecj.jar instead 
> of tools.jar (which wasn't there so it failed), so that required adding 
> a <fork>true</fork> to pom.xml.  Then the sure-fire reporting failed to 
> locate a java program so it could not report whether any tests had 
> failed (which caused the build to fail).
> 
> So for now, I am putting this away.  Might come back to it later :)
> 
> /Thorbjørn


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