I apologize. It appears that WinZip has misdirected me. I took a look at the contents of my warfile using the jar -tvf command and it contained the empty directories.
Sometimes you get the bear, and sometimes the bear gets you. ;) _________________________________ Jeremy Nix Southwest Financial Services, LTD. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (513) 621-6699 ext.1158 -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 8:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Need help including empty directories in WAR task (or Zip/JAR/TAR) On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Jeremy Nix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Notice that you touched a file (which creates a file) in the empty > directory. I did not. I touched a file in one dir, but there also is an empty directory (d) and the empty as well as the dir including a file are there. > When you remove that touch command, all directories are empty (without > files), and the war command contains nothing but the web.xml that you > specified. Let's see [EMAIL PROTECTED] gump]$ rm -r /tmp/test.war /tmp/test-setup/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] gump]$ cat /tmp/war.xml <project> <mkdir dir="test-setup/a/b/c"/> <mkdir dir="test-setup/d"/> <!--touch file="test-setup/a/b/c/e"/--> <war destfile="test.war" webxml="${ant.file}"> <fileset dir="test-setup"/> </war> </project> [EMAIL PROTECTED] gump]$ ant -f /tmp/war.xml Buildfile: /tmp/war.xml [mkdir] Created dir: /tmp/test-setup/a/b/c [mkdir] Created dir: /tmp/test-setup/d [war] Building war: /tmp/test.war BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 2 seconds [EMAIL PROTECTED] gump]$ zip -Tv /tmp/test.war Archive: /tmp/test.war testing: META-INF/ OK testing: META-INF/MANIFEST.MF OK testing: a/ OK testing: a/b/ OK testing: a/b/c/ OK testing: d/ OK testing: WEB-INF/ OK testing: WEB-INF/web.xml OK No errors detected in compressed data of /tmp/tes test of /tmp/test.war OK it works. It may be that it doesn't work with 1.5.x, but it works for me using 1.6. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
