This patch eliminates the need for providing "xjavac", which saves building a package for the unmaintained "xerces-tools". Taken from https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-java/trunk/libxerces2-java/debian/patches/01_xjavac_taskdef.patch?revision=14507 Index: b/build.xml =================================================================== --- a/build.xml +++ b/build.xml @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ <property name="tools.dir" value="./tools"/> <!-- enable compilation under JDK 1.4 and above --> - <taskdef name="xjavac" classname="org.apache.xerces.util.XJavac"> + <taskdef name="xjavac" classname="org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Javac"> <classpath> <pathelement location="${tools.dir}/bin/xjavac.jar"/> </classpath> @@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ source="${javac.source}" target="${javac.target}" classpath="${build.dir}/classes:${tools.dir}/${jar.apis}:${tools.dir}/${jar.resolver}:${tools.dir}/${jar.serializer}" - debug="${debug}" + debug="${debug}" nowarn="true" debuglevel="${debuglevel}" deprecation="${deprecation}" optimize="${optimize}" @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ source="${javac.source}" target="${javac.target}" classpath="${build.dir}/classes:${tools.dir}/${jar.apis}" - debug="${debug}" + debug="${debug}" nowarn="true" debuglevel="${debuglevel}" includeAntRuntime="false" includeJavaRuntime="true"/> @@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ source="${javac.source}" target="${javac.target}" classpath="${tools.dir}/${jar.apis}:${build.dir}/classes:./tools/junit.jar" - debug="${debug}" + debug="${debug}" nowarn="true" debuglevel="${debuglevel}" includeAntRuntime="false" includeJavaRuntime="true"/>