Clover Knowledge Base : Using external javac compiler causes classes to not be instrumented with Clover

Created by Atlassian Support, last modified by Neal Riley on Nov 22, 2012

Symptoms

Running the following ANT command, example only:

ant clean with.clover compile

Builds the project successfully where classes are compiled as expected. However, the classes are not instrumented.

Cause

This is due to a compiler attribute is defined within the <javac/> task. For example:

<javac .......
compiler="<the_compiler>" .....
</javac>

However a compiler should not be specified here as outlined in the following documentation:

Resolution

Remove the compiler attribute from the <javac/> task and define the compiler using the clovercompile attribute within the <clover-setup> task.