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Posted to user@ant.apache.org by "Maffitt, David" <ma...@mir.wustl.edu> on 2007/12/01 07:27:46 UTC
need help understanding ant 1.7
I have a directory with contents:
build.xml
a.txt
dir/b.txt
The content of build.xml is:
<project name="testant" basedir="." default="testcopy" >
<path id="filesToCopy" >
<pathelement location="a.txt" />
<pathelement location="dir/b.txt" />
</path>
<target name="testcopy" >
<copy todir="dest" flatten="true">
<resources>
<path refid="filesToCopy" />
</resources>
</copy>
</target>
</project>
When flatten is true, all is good and the directory 'dest' is created
with a.txt and b.txt.
When flatten is false, I hoped to get the directory dest with contents
a.txt and dir/b.txt. Instead the directory 'dest' is not created and I get:
[dmaffi01@coral testant]$ ant -v
Apache Ant version 1.7.0 compiled on April 1 2007
Buildfile: build.xml
Detected Java version: 1.5 in: /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_11/jre
Detected OS: Linux
parsing buildfile /home/dmaffi01/projects/testant/build.xml with URI = file:/hom
e/dmaffi01/projects/testant/build.xml
Project base dir set to: /home/dmaffi01/projects/testant
[antlib:org.apache.tools.ant] Could not load definitions from resource org/apach
e/tools/ant/antlib.xml. It could not be found.
Build sequence for target(s) `testcopy' is [testcopy]
Complete build sequence is [testcopy, ]
testcopy:
[copy] /home/dmaffi01/projects/testant/a.txt omitted as /home/dmaffi01/proj
ects/testant/a.txt is up to date.
[copy] /home/dmaffi01/projects/testant/dir/b.txt omitted as /home/dmaffi01/
projects/testant/dir/b.txt is up to date.
[copy] No sources found.
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 0 seconds
HUH? How can a.txt and dir/b.txt be up to date when their destination doesn't
exist yet? This seems too fundamental to be a bug so could someone straighten
me out?
I understand from other threads that the missing antlib.xml is not a problem.
I tried updating ant.jar anyway. There missing antlib.xml warning went away
but the behavior remained the same.
Thanks in advance,
-Dave
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Re: need help understanding ant 1.7
Posted by David Weintraub <qa...@gmail.com>.
Interesting...
I've never seen pathelement used for selecting files to copy. I don't have
ant installed on my Mac at home, so I couldn't play around with it, but I
wonder if you should have used <patternset> instead to specify the files for
your <copy> task.
<patternset id="filesToCopy">
<includes name="a.txt"/>
<includes name="dir/b.txt"/>
<patternset>
<property name="verbose.flag" value="false"/>
<property name="flattenFlag" value="false"/>
<copy todir="dest"
flatten="${flatten.flag}"
verbose="${verbose.flag}">
<fileset dir="${from.dir}>
<patternset refid="filesToCopy"/>
<fileset/>
</copy>
On Dec 1, 2007 1:27 AM, Maffitt, David <ma...@mir.wustl.edu> wrote:
> I have a directory with contents:
> build.xml
> a.txt
> dir/b.txt
>
> The content of build.xml is:
>
> <project name="testant" basedir="." default="testcopy" >
>
> <path id="filesToCopy" >
> <pathelement location="a.txt" />
> <pathelement location="dir/b.txt" />
> </path>
>
> <target name="testcopy" >
> <copy todir="dest" flatten="true">
> <resources>
> <path refid="filesToCopy" />
> </resources>
> </copy>
> </target>
>
> </project>
>
>
> When flatten is true, all is good and the directory 'dest' is created
> with a.txt and b.txt.
>
> When flatten is false, I hoped to get the directory dest with contents
> a.txt and dir/b.txt. Instead the directory 'dest' is not created and I
> get:
>
> [dmaffi01@coral testant]$ ant -v
> Apache Ant version 1.7.0 compiled on April 1 2007
> Buildfile: build.xml
> Detected Java version: 1.5 in: /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_11/jre
> Detected OS: Linux
> parsing buildfile /home/dmaffi01/projects/testant/build.xml with URI =
> file:/hom
> e/dmaffi01/projects/testant/build.xml
> Project base dir set to: /home/dmaffi01/projects/testant
> [antlib:org.apache.tools.ant] Could not load definitions from resource
> org/apach
> e/tools/ant/antlib.xml. It could not be found.
> Build sequence for target(s) `testcopy' is [testcopy]
> Complete build sequence is [testcopy, ]
>
> testcopy:
> [copy] /home/dmaffi01/projects/testant/a.txt omitted as
> /home/dmaffi01/proj
> ects/testant/a.txt is up to date.
> [copy] /home/dmaffi01/projects/testant/dir/b.txt omitted as
> /home/dmaffi01/
> projects/testant/dir/b.txt is up to date.
> [copy] No sources found.
>
> BUILD SUCCESSFUL
> Total time: 0 seconds
>
>
> HUH? How can a.txt and dir/b.txt be up to date when their destination
> doesn't
> exist yet? This seems too fundamental to be a bug so could someone
> straighten
> me out?
>
> I understand from other threads that the missing antlib.xml is not a
> problem.
> I tried updating ant.jar anyway. There missing antlib.xml warning went
> away
> but the behavior remained the same.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -Dave
>
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