[Yanel-dev] Problem building yanel on Windows with blank space in windows path

[Guillaume Déflache]

Michael Wechner schrieb:
> Michael Wechner schrieb:
>> Guillaume Déflache schrieb:
>>> Michael Wechner schrieb:
>>>> Michael Wechner schrieb:
>>>> I have now moved the source into a directory without spaces and I 
>>>> can still not build it, because something is wrong with the javadoc 
>>>> at the line
>>>>
>>>> <antcall target="generate-javadoc"/>
>>>>
>>>> within
>>>>
>>>> src/build/targets/webapp/webapp.xml
>>>>
>>>> When commenting this line, then I can build Yanel nicely and it also 
>>>> runs fine
>>>>
>>>> Any idea?
>>>
>>> What was the error exactly?
>>
>> javadoc.xml:32: Javadoc failed: java.io.IOException: CreateProcess ...
> 
> it seems like we are not the only ones with this problem
> 
> http://www.google.ch/search?q=Javadoc+failed%3A+java.io.IOException%3A+CreateProcess&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a 


Good pointer! So AFAICS:
- either `javadoc.exe` is not in the PATH (it seems nowadays JRE_HOME is 
not added automatically by Sun's JRE installer, maybe it's the same with 
JAVA_HOME / Sun's JDK?)
- or there are simply too many things in javadoc's source path for 
Windows to handle (some internal command-line buffer overflow...)

A few good ideas picked there:
- useexternalfile="yes" on the Ant task
- 1st gather the classes' dirs in few JARs and hand only that to javadoc 
(source JARs ala Eclipse/Maven might help there)