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Posted to user@ant.apache.org by "Day, Jem BGI WAC" <Je...@barclaysglobal.com> on 2001/02/01 19:32:05 UTC
'basedir does not exist' ?
Hi,
I'm obviously being really dumb but i'm having trouble with the <war>
task.
It constantly complains that 'basedir' does not exist and as far as i'm
concerned
it does. Thus either the message is incorrect or i'm misreading something.
Any help appreciated.
Details : Ant V1.2
JDK : 1.2.2
Snipit of build.xml...
<target name="j2ee" depends="compile">
<!-- Build the .war file -->
<war warfile="${dist.dir}/Charter.war"
webxml="${meta.dir}/charter.xml" >
<fileset dir="${src.dir}/html" />
<fileset dir="${src.dir}/jsp" />
<classes dir="${build.dir}" />
</war>
</target>
My Log Output.....
C:\Projects\Charter\src\build>build j2ee
C:\tools\jdk1.2.2\bin
Searching for build.xml ...
Buildfile: C:\Projects\Charter\src\build\build.xml
prepare:
[mkdir] Created dir: C:\Projects\Charter\build
[mkdir] Created dir: C:\Projects\Charter\dist
basedir = C:\Projects\Charter
src.dir = C:\Projects\Charter/src
build.dir = C:\Projects\Charter/build
dist.dir = C:\Projects\Charter/dist
compile:
[javac] Compiling 89 source files to C:\Projects\Charter\build
j2ee:
BUILD FAILED
java.lang.IllegalStateException: basedir does not exist
at
org.apache.tools.ant.DirectoryScanner.scan(DirectoryScanner.java:655)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.War.isUpToDate(War.java:146)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Zip.execute(Zip.java, Compiled
Code)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java, Compiled Code)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.runTarget(Project.java:818)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java, Compiled
Code)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java,
Compiled Code)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java, Compiled Code)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.main(Main.java:149)
Total time: 25 seconds
basedir does not exist
C:\Projects\Charter\src\build>