Isolating problems running the Ant tasks
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## Isolating problems running the Ant tasks

If you have problems with the tasks not solved by the documentation, please try to see if you have the same problems when running ajc directly on the command line.

- If the problem occurs on the command line also, then the problem is not in the task. (It may be in the tools; please send bug reports.)

- If the problem does not occur on the command line, then it may lie in the parameters you are supplying in Ant or in the task's handling of them.

- If the build script looks correct and the problem only occurs when building from Ant, then please send a report (including your build file, if possible).

### Known issues with the Ant tasks

For the most up-to-date information on known problems, see the bug database for unresolved compiler bugs or taskdef bugs .

When running Ant build scripts under Eclipse 2.x variants, you will get a VerifyError because the Eclipse Ant support fails to isolate the Ant runtime properly. To run in this context, set up iajc to fork (and use forkclasspath). Eclipse 3.0 will fork Ant processes to avoid problems like this.

Memory and forking: Users email most often about the ajc task running out of memory. This is not a problem with the task; some compiles take a lot of memory, often more than similar compiles using javac.

Forking is now supported in both the Ajc11CompilerAdapter (javac) and AjcTask (iajc), and you can set the maximum memory available. You can also not fork and increase the memory available to Ant (see the Ant documentation, searching for ANT_OPTS, the variable they use in their scripts to pass VM options, e.g., ANT_OPTS=-Xmx128m).

### Ant task questions and bugs

For questions, you can send email to aspectj-users@dev.eclipse.org. (Do join the list to participate!) We also welcome any bug reports, patches, and features; you can submit them to the bug database at http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs using the AspectJ product and Ant component.

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