oh - got it now. My mail server seems to be wonky again ;)

On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 06:00, Stephen McConnell wrote:
> Pete:
>
> Being someone who (a) does not use the build scipts, and (b) does not need
> xerces.jar because development here is on JDK 1.4, the solution proposed
> below doesn't work.  The termorary workaround I have added to my version of
> the phoenix build is the following
>
>   // from check-environment
>
>     <available property="xerces.present" type="file" file="${xerces.jar}"/>
>
>   // from "dist-lite"
>
>     <copy todir="${bin.dist.lib}">
>         <fileset dir="${lib.dir}">
>               <include name="xerces.jar" if="xerces.present"/>
>         </fileset>
>     </copy>
>
> The problem here is that this does not use the "{xerces.jar}" property
> because the ${xerces.jar} defines a path and I can only apply the "if" test
> on a filename include.  The clean solution would be to seperate the xerces
> directory path from the filename - ${xerces.dir}/${xerces.file}.  That
> would allow something like the following:
>
>   // from check-environment
>
>     <available property="xerces.present" type="file"
> file="${xerces.dir}/${xerces.file}"/>
>
>   // from "dist-lite"
>
>     <copy todir="${bin.dist.lib}">
>         <fileset dir="${xerces.dir}">
>               <include name="${xerces.file}" if="xerces.available"/>
>         </fileset>
>     </copy>
>
> So instead of documenting ${xerces.jar} in the ant.properties.sample file,
> you could instead document ${xerces.dir} and ${xerces.jar} and maintain the
> defintion of ${xerces.jar} in the build file.
>
> Steve.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Saturday, 10 November, 2001 08:20
> > To: Avalon Development
> > Subject: [phoenix] xerces.jar
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > If you don't build phoenix via the build scripts you are going to
> > have to add
> > a property into you ant.properties file that specifies the
> > location of the
> > xerces jar for it to build from now on. See ant.properties.sample for an
> > example of it.
> >
> > --
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Pete
> >
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-- 
Cheers,

Pete

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