Gant seems to compile and run its tests fine using IntelliJ IDEA.
Eclipse however is giving me a bit of grief. I have (finally -- long
story) managed to upgrade my Eclipse installation. Compilation of Gant
is fine, but the tests are showing some unexpected problems.
Exemplified by the stack trace below. Now as far as I am aware
powerassert is a subpackage of org.codehaus.groovy.runtime, and there is
no package org.codehaus.groovy.transform.powerassert. So how can a
fully cleaned and recompiled project have any references to a package
that doesn't exist?

    java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/codehaus/groovy/transform/powerassert/ValueRecorder
     at gant.Gant.dispatch(Gant.groovy:418)
     at gant.Gant.this$2$dispatch(Gant.groovy)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke (Method.java:616)
     at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedMethod.invoke (CachedMethod.java:88)
     at groovy.lang.MetaMethod.doMethodInvoke (MetaMethod.java:233)
     at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod (MetaClassImpl.java:1058)
     at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod (MetaClassImpl.java:886)
     at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod (MetaClassImpl.java:708)
     at gant.Gant.invokeMethod(Gant.groovy)
     at groovy.lang.GroovyObject$invokeMethod.callCurrent(Unknown Source)
     at gant.Gant.processTargets(Gant.groovy:579)
     at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor67.invoke(Unknown Source)
     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke (Method.java:616)
     at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PogoMetaMethodSite$PogoCachedMethodSiteNoUnwrapNoCoerce.invoke(PogoMetaMethodSite.java:266)
     at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PogoMetaMethodSite.callCurrent (PogoMetaMethodSite.java:51)
     at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.callCurrent (AbstractCallSite.java:155)
     at gant.Gant.processArgs(Gant.groovy:540)
     at org.codehaus.gant.tests.GantTestCase.processCmdLineTargets(GantTestCase.java:164)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke (Method.java:616)
     at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PogoMetaMethodSite$PogoCachedMethodSiteNoUnwrapNoCoerce.invoke(PogoMetaMethodSite.java:266)
     at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PogoMetaMethodSite.callCurrent (PogoMetaMethodSite.java:51)
     at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCallCurrent (CallSiteArray.java:44)
     at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.callCurrent (AbstractCallSite.java:143)
     at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.callCurrent (AbstractCallSite.java:147)
     at org.codehaus.gant.tests.bugs.Assorted_Test.test_GANT_34_originalIvycachePathProblemFixed(Assorted_Test.groovy:88)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke (Method.java:616)
     at junit.framework.TestCase.runTest (TestCase.java:168)
     at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare (TestCase.java:134)
     at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:110)
     at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected (TestResult.java:128)
     at junit.framework.TestResult.run (TestResult.java:113)
     at junit.framework.TestCase.run (TestCase.java:124)
     at junit.framework.TestSuite.runTest (TestSuite.java:232)
     at junit.framework.TestSuite.run (TestSuite.java:227)
     at org.junit.internal.runners.JUnit38ClassRunner.run (JUnit38ClassRunner.java:83)
     at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.run(JUnit4TestReference.java:46)
     at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38)
     at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests (RemoteTestRunner.java:467)
     at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests (RemoteTestRunner.java:683)
     at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run (RemoteTestRunner.java:390)
     at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main (RemoteTestRunner.java:197)
    Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.codehaus.groovy.transform.powerassert.ValueRecorder
     at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217)
     at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
     at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass (URLClassLoader.java:205)
     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass (ClassLoader.java:321)
     at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294)
     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass (ClassLoader.java:266)
     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal (ClassLoader.java:334)
     ... 51 more
   


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