--available-- dos not work correctly

[Alex Gugel <al...@100world.de>]

Hello,

I'm using ANT 1.3 and I have problems with the <available> tag:

  <target name="prepare">
    <tstamp/>

>>>>
   <available file="${build.dir}/modules-ant.xml"
property="modules-ant"/>
<<<<

  </target>

  <!-- generate ANT file -->
  <target name="generate-ant" depends="prepare" unless="modules-ant">
    <style basedir="." destdir="${build.dir}"
style="xsl/make-modules.xsl"
           in="${modules.xml}" out="${build.dir}/modules-ant.xml"/>
  </target>

The ${build.dir}/modules-ant.xml is not present in the filesystem, but
available sets modules-ant and so generate-ant is never called. Is that
a known bug? Or do I do something wrong?

yours

alex

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Re: --available-- dos not work correctly

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

Alex Gugel <al...@100world.de> wrote:

> The ${build.dir}/modules-ant.xml is not present in the filesystem,
> but available sets modules-ant and so generate-ant is never
> called.

Either the file is there or something else is setting modules-ant, I
can't think of any other reason as a bug like this wouldn't slip
through (the JUnit tests would catch it).

Does running ant -verbose give any clues?  You *should* see a message
"Unable to find <file> to set property modules-ant" from the available
task with <file> being the absolute pathname of the file you are
looking for.

Stefan