Question

I am trying to build spring framework (both trunk and 3.0.5 Release). The build fails with the error was shown below. Steps taken.

1. svn co https://src.springsource.org/svn/spring-framework/trunk spring-framework
   or svn co https://src.springsource.org/svn/spring-framework/tags/spring-framework-3.0.5.RELEASE spring-framework-3.0.5.RELEASE
2. cd build-spring-framework
3. ant

Unfortunately, I am building on windows machine. Java version shows
java version “1.6.0_16”
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_16-b01)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.2-b01, mixed mode)

thanks.

[s:javac]     at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
  [s:javac]     at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Sequential.execute(Sequential.java:62)
  [s:javac]     at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:288)
  [s:javac]     at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor151.invoke(Unknown Source)
  [s:javac]
  [s:javac] ----------
   [subant] Leaving directory: C:\Work\SpringFramework\spring-framework-3.0.5.RELEASE\org.springframework.web

BUILD FAILED
C:\Work\SpringFramework\spring-framework-3.0.5.RELEASE\spring-build\multi-bundle\artifact.xml:60: The following error oc
curred while executing this line:
C:\Work\SpringFramework\spring-framework-3.0.5.RELEASE\spring-build\multi-bundle\common.xml:86: The following error occu
rred while executing this line:
C:\Work\SpringFramework\spring-framework-3.0.5.RELEASE\spring-build\common\artifact.xml:43: The following error occurred
 while executing this line:
C:\Work\SpringFramework\spring-framework-3.0.5.RELEASE\spring-build\common\common.xml:161: The following error occurred
while executing this line:
C:\Work\SpringFramework\spring-framework-3.0.5.RELEASE\spring-build\standard\common.xml:29: java.lang.reflect.Invocation
TargetException

Answer 1

Well, I am still to correct it.. but the actual cause was

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space

I remember I have to increase the XX:MaxPermSize VM argument, and going through the option. Sorry for the trouble.

Edit:
adding a system variable ANT_OPTS with value -XX:MaxPermSize=128m -Xmx256m did the trick.