Homebrew-core: brew install ant fails because of missing dependency to bcel

Created on 26 Sep 2019 · 5Comments · Source: Homebrew/homebrew-core

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What you were trying to do (and why)

Tried to install Apache Ant by running brew install ant

What happened (include command output)

Installation failed with the following output:

~ > brew install ant
==> Downloading https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.10.7-bin.tar.xz
Already downloaded: /Users/bene/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/eff485c9fc5bf11232b26b3ae7f6c062a4edd8cd0e3d8a4e5a7f549521050ecb--apache-ant-1.10.7-bin.tar.xz
==> Downloading https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=ant/ivy/2.4.0/apache-ivy-2.4.0-bin.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Users/bene/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/d7c4a713694cabcfdaa178db886b9f04febb4655388accfcdacfb4dc509c4205--apache-ivy-2.4.0-bin.tar.gz
==> Downloading https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=commons/bcel/binaries/bcel-6.3.1-bin.tar.gz
==> Downloading from http://mirror.synyx.de/apache/commons/bcel/binaries/bcel-6.3.1-bin.tar.gz

curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
Trying a mirror...
==> Downloading https://www-eu.apache.org/dist/commons/bcel/binaries/bcel-6.3.1-bin.tar.gz

curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
Trying a mirror...
==> Downloading https://www-us.apache.org/dist/commons/bcel/binaries/bcel-6.3.1-bin.tar.gz

curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
Error: An exception occurred within a child process:
  DownloadError: Failed to download resource "ant--bcel"
Download failed: https://www-us.apache.org/dist/commons/bcel/binaries/bcel-6.3.1-bin.tar.gz

What you expected to happen

Apache ant should be installed on my system without error.

Step-by-step reproduction instructions (by running brew install commands)

run brew install ant

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Source

britter

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Most helpful comment

I think the ant formula needs to updated to the latest Commons BCEL release, which is 6.4.0 or the formular needs to use the archive mirrors instead of the dist mirror because the archives will keep old versions but the dist mirror will only have the latest version.

britter on 26 Sep 2019

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