Created attachment 29541 [details] A project demonstrating the problem. Seems that the depend task does not handle classfiles with the invokeDynamic properly: /tmp/invokeDynamicByteCode/nbproject/build-impl.xml:923: The following error occurred while executing this line: /tmp/invokeDynamicByteCode/nbproject/build-impl.xml:329: java.lang.ClassFormatError: Invalid Constant Pool entry Type 18 at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.depend.constantpool.ConstantPoolEntry.readEntry(ConstantPoolEntry.java:159) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.depend.constantpool.ConstantPool.read(ConstantPool.java:67) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.depend.ClassFile.read(ClassFile.java:72) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.depend.AntAnalyzer.determineDependencies(AntAnalyzer.java:92) at org.apache.tools.ant.util.depend.AbstractAnalyzer.getClassDependencies(AbstractAnalyzer.java:100) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.depend.Depend.determineDependencies(Depend.java:346) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.depend.Depend.execute(Depend.java:718) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:291) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor4.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:474) at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Sequential.execute(Sequential.java:68) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:291) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor4.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:474) at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.MacroInstance.execute(MacroInstance.java:398) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:291) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor4.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:474) at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:390) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:411) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1399) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1368) at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1251) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:809) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:217) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:280) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:109) This may exist for some time, but is a bigger problem now, as it seems that recent JDK-lambda builds appear to be using invokeDynamic to implement lambdas. To reproduce: -download and unpack the attached project -run "ant" inside the project - the above exception appears for me The above steps work even when running on JDK6, but the project as such can only be succesfully compiled on a lambda JDK. Tested with custom build ant from revision 1404889, and with: $ ant -version Apache Ant(TM) version 1.8.2 compiled on December 20 2010
https://github.com/jenkinsci/constant-pool-scanner/issues/2 is similar.
can you build ant from the latest sources in svn found under http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk/ and try your build?