diff --git a/bin/ant b/bin/ant
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-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# $Id: ant,v 1.4 2003/10/06 21:24:29 mdb Exp $
-#
-# Invokes our desired version of ant with all of our jar files in the
-# classpath.
-
-BINDIR=`dirname $0`
-
-# process our arguments
-while [ ! -z "$1" ]; do
-    case "$1" in
-    -Dbuild.compiler=*)
-        ANT_COMPILER="$1"
-        ;;
-    -D*)
-        ANT_OPTS="$ANT_OPTS $1"
-        ;;
-    -d)
-        ANT_OPTS="$ANT_OPTS -Dbuild.optimize=off"
-        ;;
-    *)
-        ARGS="$ARGS $1"
-        ;;
-    esac
-    shift
-done
-
-# Load default settings from config file (if it exists)
-if [ -f "$HOME/.antrc" ]; then
-  . "$HOME/.antrc"
-fi
-
-# add all JAR files in JAVA_LIBS to CLASSPATH
-SYSTEMCP=`echo $JAVA_LIBS/*.jar | tr ' ' ':'`
-
-# add all JAR files in the project libraries directory to CLASSPATH
-PROJECTCP=`echo $BINDIR/../lib/*.jar | tr ' ' ':'`
-
-# also the project jar file
-PROJECTJAR=`echo $BINDIR/../dist/*.jar | tr ' ' ':'`
-
-if [ "$CLASSPATH" ] ; then
-    CLASSPATH="$PROJECTJAR:$PROJECTCP:$SYSTEMCP:$CLASSPATH"
-else
-    CLASSPATH="$PROJECTJAR:$PROJECTCP:$SYSTEMCP"
-fi
-export CLASSPATH
-
-$JAVA_HOME/bin/java $ANT_COMPILER $ANT_OPTS -Dant.home=/usr/share/ant \
-	org.apache.tools.ant.Main $ARGS