Bug 45370

Summary:	StackOverflowError when compiling XOM
Product:	Ant	Reporter:	Gili <cowwoc>
Component:	Core tasks	Assignee:	Ant Notifications List <notifications>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P1
Version:	1.7.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows Vista
Attachments:	modified build.xml Output log

Description Gili 2008-07-09 10:18:42 UTC

Hi,

When building XOM using Ant I get a StackOverflowError that I cannot reproduce outside of Ant. Here is how you can reproduce it:

1) Download http://www.cafeconleche.org/XOM/xom-1.2b2.zip and extract it into <xom-dir>

2) Download http://dist.codehaus.org/jaxen/distributions/jaxen-1.1.1-src.zip into <xom-dir>

3) Copy the attached build.xml into <xom-dir> and run "ant dist"

4) You should see the same output mentioned in output.txt

This is reproducible 100% of the time both under JDK 1.5 or 1.6

Comment 1 Gili 2008-07-09 10:24:53 UTC

Created attachment 22240 [details]
modified build.xml

Comment 2 Gili 2008-07-09 10:25:12 UTC

Created attachment 22241 [details]
Output log

Comment 3 Gili 2008-07-09 10:36:10 UTC

FYI: I get this same exception running "ant dist" against XOM 1.1 without modifying build.xml

Comment 4 Matt Benson 2008-07-09 10:40:45 UTC

Did Ant 1.7.0 fail in this way?

Comment 5 Gili 2008-07-09 11:06:51 UTC

Yes, I believe 1.6.x failed this way too.

Comment 6 Stefan Bodewig 2008-07-10 02:33:03 UTC

I vaguely recall seeing it fail in Gump that way on some JDK.

If you look into the stacktrace, you see the stack is taken up by some recursive calls inside Sun's javac.  I'm a bit surprised you wouldn't see the same error when compiling the same set of files outside of Ant.

Does the problem go away if you fork the javac task?

Comment 7 Gili 2008-07-10 09:22:55 UTC

That's correct, fork="true" makes the problem go away.

Comment 8 Stefan Bodewig 2008-08-22 04:30:35 UTC

rather CANTFIX