Bug in task? Directory portion of a srcfile does not exist

[Earl Hood <ea...@gmail.com>]

Ant version: 1.8.4

When using <uptodate>, if I have a <srcfiles file="..."/>, and the
dirname portion of the pathname does not exist, uptodate causes a
project build failure.

For example, if the pathname is "C:\Whatever\Directory\file.txt" and
"C:\Whatever\Directory" does not exists, build failure.

There is no problem if the file itself is not present (the dirname
portion exists, but the base file does not). I believe uptodate should
not fail in the scenario described above.

Is this a legitimate bug?

--ewh

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Re: Bug in task? Directory portion of a srcfile does not exist

[Earl Hood <ea...@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 1:55 PM, I wrote:

> When using <uptodate>, if I have a <srcfiles file="..."/>, and the
> dirname portion of the pathname does not exist, uptodate causes a
> project build failure.
...

Nevermind.  After digging through Ant source and documentation, I
realized one needs to set the erroronmissingdir="false" (available since
Ant 1.7.1) attribute on <srcfiles> (which is a fileset) so an exception
will not be thrown if the directory does not exist.

I'm guessing the reason that erroronmissingdir is not false by default
is for backwards compatibility.

Sorry for the interruption,

--ewh

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