Hi, I have small patch series which tries to accomplish a easier developer experience when building libvirt-java. The reason is simple based on the fact that the following workflow does not work out of the box. 1. with ant: # git clone git://libvirt.org/libvirt-java.git # cd libvirt-java # ant gives: [javac] Compiling 64 source files to /home/stefan/dev/libvirt-java/target/classes [javac] /home/stefan/dev/libvirt-java/src/main/java/org/libvirt/Library.java:5: error: package com.sun.jna does not exist [javac] import com.sun.jna.Native; ... because the ant build depends on a locally installed jna.jar which might be not present. 2. with maven3 # cp pom.xml.in pom.xml # mvn clean install gives: [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.0.2:compile (default-compile) on project libvirt: Compilation failure: Compilation failure: [ERROR] /home/stefan/dev/libvirt-java/src/main/java/org/libvirt/DomainSnapshot.java:[4,7] error: static import declarations are not supported in -source 1.3 because maven still defaults to java source 1.3 on certain distributions (ubuntu 13.04 here). after adding a proper setting with the maven-compiler-plugin i get: [ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR : [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------- [ERROR] /home/stefan/dev/libvirt-java/src/main/java/org/libvirt/Library.java:[41,28] cannot find symbol symbol: method nativeValue(com.sun.jna.Pointer) location: class com.sun.jna.Pointer [ERROR] /home/stefan/dev/libvirt-java/src/main/java/org/libvirt/Library.java:[42,16] cannot find symbol symbol: method nativeValue(com.sun.jna.Pointer,long) location: class com.sun.jna.Pointer This is because jna version 3.0.9 is specified but this version does not have these signatures. To make a long story short i would like to propose the following patches: 1. remove the ant components (build.xml, build.properties) altogether and use maven exclusively. 2. rename pom.xml.in into pom.xml and specify java source and jna 3. remove libvirt-java.spec.in and create the libvirt-java.rpm with the rpm-maven-plugin. 4. update the README and INSTALL accordingly As result there will be only one file which is responsible for the build left (pom.xml). If there is a consensus i will post the patches as a followup. Any objections, suggestions ? Greetings -- Stefan Majer -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list