Don't understand

[ro...@elastica.com]

Why is it attempting to actually delete the directory?

The docs say it will try and delete everything from the directory

<target name="clean" depends="init">
		<delete dir="${outputDir}" verbose="yes">
			<fileset dir="." includes="**/*.class"/>
		</delete>

	</target>

Here I get a build failed saying that it couldn't remove ${outputdir}
why?

Re: Don't understand

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@bost.de>]

>>>>> "r" == robert  <ro...@elastica.com> writes:

 r> Why is it attempting to actually delete the directory?

 r> <delete dir="${outputDir}" verbose="yes"> 
 r>   <fileset dir="." includes="**/*.class"/> 
 r> </delete>

What this delete is supposed to do:

(1) delete directory ${outputDir} with all its contents

(2) delete all .class files found somewhere below the project's
basedir (which . becomes when Ant resolves relative filenames).

I guess, what you really want is to delete all .class files found
under ${outputDir}. This would be

<delete verbose="yes"> 
  <fileset dir="${outputDir}" includes="**/*.class"/> 
</delete>

Hope this helps

        Stefan

Re: Don't understand

[Benjamin Reed <ra...@befunk.com>]

On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 robert@elastica.com wrote:

> Here I get a build failed saying that it couldn't remove
> ${outputdir} why?

Have you checked that the outputdir property is actually being set before
the delete?  Otherwise, it should have already interpreted it instead of
printing it as an error.

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