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Bug 329853

Summary:	Compiler does not handle PDE projects that specify classes/ folder as source
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Thomas Watson <tjwatson>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Olivier Thomann <Olivier_Thomann>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, jarthana, Olivier_Thomann
Version:	3.7
Target Milestone:	3.7 M4
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
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Description Thomas Watson

2010-11-09 16:03:58 EST

See bug329277.

In org.eclipse.core.runtime.compatibility.registry we had a case where a classes/ folder (which only contained .class files, not .java files) was included as a source folder:

source.runtime_registry_compatibility.jar = src/,\
                                            classes/

This started to cause compile errors when the build moved to a newer version of JDT/Core (I think the upgrade to M3).  This bug is being opened to track down what changed in the behavior of JDT/Core to cause this scenario to start failing.  We have implemented a workaround in bug329277 to successfully build org.eclipse.core.runtime.compatibility.registry but we should still get to the bottom of why this started to fail.

Comment 1 Olivier Thomann

2010-11-16 08:58:26 EST

On the JDT/Core side, this is likely coming from the fact that I used the option -sourcepath to pass in the source path option from the ant task. Before I used to pass them as a classpath entry.
So being a source path means that the classes are only search from a source file not a class file.

Closing as FIXED.

Comment 2 Jay Arthanareeswaran

2010-12-07 04:52:13 EST

Verified for 3.7M4 using build I20101206-1800