forking ant builds in eclipse 2.x

diff --git a/docs/devGuideDB/antsupport.xml b/docs/devGuideDB/antsupport.xml
index bbadca4f64a80440c78d3699b0f3c7fccd35468f..92e8f888d57eb066783f456ec64a30be514d07fd 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/devGuideDB/antsupport.xml
+++ b/docs/devGuideDB/antsupport.xml
@@ -1655,6 +1655,12 @@
                        </ulink>.
                </para>
                <para>
+           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.
+               </para>
+               <para>
            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