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2013-08-22 Thread Peter Reilly
Maybe ant-contrib's runtarget may fit better for your use-case. Peter On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Eric Fetzer wrote: > This is insane! Is there no way to preserve information set in an > antcall? I tried to change strategy a little and do the following: > > > > > >

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Re: @classpath

2013-04-10 Thread Peter Reilly
It is described in: http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/macrodef.html On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Peter West wrote: > Where can I find documentation for usage like > > ? > > Likewise for the other uses of "@"? > > Thanks. > > Peter West > > "Have you believed because you have seen me? Bl

Re: Case insensitive attributes?

2012-09-12 Thread Peter Reilly
Because it is not case sensitive. The code does this by hand. Peter On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Peng Yu wrote: > Hi, > > ~/linux/test/ant/lang/project/target/javac/destdir$ ant -version > Apache Ant(TM) version 1.8.4 compiled on May 22 2012 > > I have the following build.xml. ant works no

Re: determine what shellscript just ran

2012-01-14 Thread Peter Reilly
The only way I can see, is to set shell into debug mode, using set -x set -x   ls -l /tmp Peter On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 8:16 PM, grayaii wrote: > A lot of our build.xmls contain things like this, where “ls -l /tmp” is just > some arbitrary command: > > >                ls -l /tmp > > > Wh

Re: General Concept Question

2011-11-01 Thread Peter Reilly
the ant task javac will call the command line javac for files that are changed. In your case ResumeFileGenerator.java has not changed so only ResumeConstants.java will be compiled to ResumeConstants.class. However, ResumeFileGenerator.class does not contain references to ResumeConstants.class, the

Re: How to reference elements in custom task

2011-03-14 Thread Peter Reilly
ld access the path element > and then "inject" those references into the execution environment I'd be able > to > move forward.  Am I mistaken? > > Most of what I found either didn't apply or I didn't understand.  What I did > find outside of that didn

Re: Alternative to if else task.

2011-02-11 Thread Peter Reilly
You do not need to place the antelope jar in the ant/lib directory. It is not in general a good idea to do this for antlibs. Add the antelope jar to the project files, for example in {PROJECT}/lib/ant/ and in the build.xml, use to define the tasks. In my build.xml I have the following:

Re: Wisdom of using ":" in property name

2011-02-01 Thread Peter Reilly
: and = and ' ' are used to separate the key from value in java property files. so, not a good thing to use in property values. Peter On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Vimil Saju wrote: > you're nuts, don't use : in property names! :P > > --- On Tue, 2/1/11, Steele, Richard wrote: > >> From: Ste

Re: Mail task with mail.jar & activation.jar out of lib folder

2011-01-19 Thread Peter Reilly
url of: http://enitsys.sourceforge.net/ant-classloadertask/ Peter On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote: > Hello Patrick, > > it is possible to do this using the classloader task of jtools > > classname="org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.ClassloaderTask"> > > > > > > >

Re: Getting task class *only* from specified path

2010-11-01 Thread Peter Reilly
You may be able to use from http://enitsys.sourceforge.net/ant-classloadertask/ but with the same class in two places in the classpath, you will have problems. Peter On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Peter Reilly wrote: > It would be good to understand one word in three of that ;-) >

Re: Getting task class *only* from specified path

2010-11-01 Thread Peter Reilly
kage also (there may be non-maven shading tools for the maven averse ;-) > ) > > On 1 Nov 2010 17:07, "Peter Reilly" wrote: > > That will not work. > The jars in $ant.home/lib or ~/.ant/lib will > be in front in the classloader. > > Peter > > > > On Mo

Re: Getting task class *only* from specified path

2010-11-01 Thread Peter Reilly
That will not work. The jars in $ant.home/lib or ~/.ant/lib will be in front in the classloader. Peter On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 4:23 PM, David Weintraub wrote: > When you use a , you can specify the classpath to use to > point to the jarfile. ut the jarfile used by inside your > project, and the

Re: Other than looking at the Ant source...

2010-09-13 Thread Peter Reilly
Look at third party ant libs - antcontrib, antxtras , xmltask http://www.oopsconsultancy.com/software/xmltask/ http://jwaresoftware.org/wiki/antxtras/home http://sourceforge.net/projects/ant-contrib/ Peter On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Scot P. Floess wrote: > > To date, I've always used Ant

Re: Rhino global.load() in script context

2010-08-24 Thread Peter Reilly
That is pretty awesome!. Peter On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Jacob Beard wrote: > And here is what it looks like now: > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/sandbox/gsoc/2010/scxml-js/trunk/build.xml > > Most interesting parts are target run-unit-tests-with-rhino target and macro > run-

Re: convert ant path without assigning to immutable property

2010-08-20 Thread Peter Reilly
you can use from ant 1.8 onwards. http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/local.html Peter On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Ja

Re: Error in documentation (zipfileset, single argument resource collection)

2010-08-19 Thread Peter Reilly
, schrieb Peter Reilly: >> Yes, tis is a known problem with the manual. >> >> Stefan Bodewig came up then the correct expression: >> >> >>   >>   >>     >>       >>     >>   >> >> >> The manual will be updated.. &

Re: Error in documentation (zipfileset, single argument resource collection)

2010-08-19 Thread Peter Reilly
Yes, tis is a known problem with the manual. Stefan Bodewig came up then the correct expression: The manual will be updated.. Peter On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Jann Röder wrote: > Hi, > I think I might have found an error in the documentation. On the page > about the

Re: outofdate task returns TRUE if no target files exist??

2010-07-21 Thread Peter Reilly
d right now though - > so > I'll try to stay away from it and use core Ant tasks instead. > > thanks for your response, > Marina > > > > > > > From: Peter Reilly > To: Ant Users List > Sent: Wed, July 21, 2010 5:16:42 A

Re: outofdate task returns TRUE if no target files exist??

2010-07-21 Thread Peter Reilly
The problem is that you are specifying no targetfiles. In this case, I normally pick a scapegoat file that I know should always be present. - ${destination}/myapp.ear/WEB-INF/web.xml or some such file. I suppose that one could change

Re: web site example does not work

2010-06-29 Thread Peter Reilly
2010/6/29 SZEDER Gábor : > Hi Stefan, > > thanks for your reply. > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 01:51:59PM +0200, Stefan Bodewig wrote: >> On 2010-06-29, Stefan Bodewig wrote: >> >>     >>       >>     >> >> > It looks as if the example wanted to use zipgroupfileset instead of >> > zipf

Re: Problem with version of Apache Ant 1.8.1

2010-06-15 Thread Peter Reilly
I get > ant -version Apache Ant version 1.8.1 compiled on April 30 2010 on linux. Peter On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Alex Foreman wrote: > There seems to be a problem with 1.8.1 reporting the correct version. > > With Ant 1.8.0 on the classpath: > > unix: >>  ant -version > Apache Ant versi

Re: web site example does not work

2010-06-13 Thread Peter Reilly
how is it failing? what version of ant are you using ? it works for me with ant 1.8.0. Peter On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Misha Koshelev wrote: > http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/jar.html > > >     >     >       >     >     >                  value="com.acme.checksites.Main"/> >     >  

Re: Looping number of times

2010-05-13 Thread Peter Reilly
There is a bug with the task. It is unable to handle begin and end being the same. I cannot push a fix, since I forgot my ant-contrib username/password. Here is a patch: Index: src/main/java/net/sf/antcontrib/logic/ForTask.java ===

Re: Better alternative than using foreach, for and if/then/else?

2010-05-05 Thread Peter Reilly
You need to use ant 1.8 and the task. declares that a property is local to the current scope, as defined by the enclosing or see: http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/local.html

Re: Adding Optional Jars in an Ant build

2010-04-27 Thread Peter Reilly
The scp ant task classes are in the same classloader as the rest of the body of ant (except for the launcher classes). See the code for junit and script for the hideous workarounds that are needed to get them to allow to load their required third party classes. A similar effort will need to be d

Re: where to download the latest ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar

2010-04-16 Thread Peter Reilly
Yes, you sould use the antlib.xml and not the .properties resource. The .properties one is meant for compatibility with ant 1.5. Peter On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:05 AM, wrote: > There are two ways of declaring new tasks: > - with properties files > - with antlib.xml files: since Ant 1.6 > With A

Re: broken in 1.8?

2010-03-30 Thread Peter Reilly
I do not see how this would work in ant 1.7, unless you have the ivy jars in $ant.home/lib Peter On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Nik wrote: > Hi I recently upgraded from Ant 1.7 to Ant 1.8. > > One feature of my existing Ant files that seems to no longer work is the > element. > > I have the f

Re: Performance dropped with Ant version 1.8.0

2010-03-22 Thread Peter Reilly
I concur, please create a bugzilla entry for this. Also, ant 1.8 contains a new task - which allows an alternative to using the antcontrib variable task. Peter On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > On 2010-03-22, wrote: > >> I could track the performance leak down to the A

Re: How to stop receiving postings but stay subscribed? Web only

2010-01-26 Thread Peter Reilly
The simple solution is to set up a gmail address to send messages from. Peter On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Jean-Baptiste BRIAUD -- Novlog wrote: > That's right. You need to subscribe to ask question, this is why there is > subscription. > > On Jan 26, 2010, at 15:15 , BenXS wrote: > >> >>

Re: ForTask throwing exception for same value for begin and end

2009-11-30 Thread Peter Reilly
Yes this is a bug in the ant-contrib 's for task (as usual I have forgot my password..) work-around: use step="-1" if begin and end are the same, and ensure that end >= begin. work-around-2: patch ant-conrib: svn co https://ant-contrib.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ant-contrib/ant-contrib/trunk an

Re: Running parallel targets in Ant loop

2009-11-11 Thread Peter Reilly
You could use the "parallel" attribute -> http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/tasks/tasks/for.html WARNING:: although I wrote the task, I have never used the parallel attribute, since most of ant is not parallel safe. Peter > > you can use task > > > Harry_ wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I need to run m

Re: NPE in RuntimeConfigurable.maybeConfigure() via UnknownElement after upgrade to Ant 1.7

2009-09-15 Thread Peter Reilly
The ant api is very much a broken abstraction - i.e. it has not been designed to used as an api. One thing for sure is that if there is project field in any object, it needs to be set. It will at some stage be used. On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Wirth, Marc wrote: > Hello, > > After upgrad

Re: about BOMs

2009-06-19 Thread Peter Reilly
Please be aware that this is a long standing problem. Byte ordering is needed for utf-16 and 32, and there is a byteordering code for that at the start of the file. For utf-8 byte ordering is not required, however the utf-8 standard is a little vague as to whether it is not allowed. this means

Re: Create a jar with the META-INF/services dir: strange behavior...

2009-06-08 Thread Peter Reilly
This is fixed in ant 1.7.1. Peter On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Federico Tomassetti wrote: > Hi, I am trying to build some Jars that contains annotations > processors so they need to create a file under META-INF/services named > javax.annotation.processing.Processor. I am doind it for annopro

Re: Copy and Include Issues in Apache Ant.

2009-04-24 Thread Peter Reilly
Because does not split up the name using ',' You need to have : etc.. Peter On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Rajesh Kumar (IN4774) wrote: > Question: Why Copy in ant is not working if I am putting includes separately? > Ant version: Apache Ant version 1.5.4 compiled on January 8 20

Re: Pass multiple directories to -lib option

2009-04-23 Thread Peter Reilly
I think that ant -f saxon.xml -lib C:\jlib should also work (untested). Peter On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Michael Ludwig wrote: > Felix Dorner schrieb am 22.04.2009 um 09:46:40 (+0200): >> >> > > The 'help' output and the manual say: >> > >    "-lib            specifies a path to search f

Re: jar task: update and service

2009-04-15 Thread Peter Reilly
: > Hello Peter, > > Could you find something? > > Thanks! > Zsolt > > > -Original Message- > From: Peter Reilly [mailto:peter.kitt.rei...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 7:04 PM > To: Ant Users List > Subject: Re: jar task: update and service &

Re: jar task: update and service

2009-04-03 Thread Peter Reilly
That does sound like a bug. I will look into it. Peter 2009/4/3 Kúti Zsolt : > Hi, > > Accomplishing a jar task, I want to update my jar with a service element. > Service entry does appear on first creation of the jar, but update attribute > of the jar task does not seem to work. > > Can anybo

Re: How to Add a Text Comment to the Beginning of a File (copy, concat)?

2009-03-18 Thread Peter Reilly
This is probably the first time that was mentioned on the mailing list since it was added to ! Peter On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:58 AM, wrote: >>I am using to create a destfile. I would like to provide a >>comment at the top of the destfile that contains a list of the files >>specified in the

Re: How to use nested if in ant script?

2009-03-09 Thread Peter Reilly
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Felix Dorner wrote: > >> Use ;) > > That brings me to ask: Does the new (?)

Re: How to use nested if in ant script?

2009-03-06 Thread Peter Reilly
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:45 AM, NR031 wrote: > > Hi all, > > >    I found out the solution myself : > > >             >             >                 >                     >                     >                        success >                      

Re: Trouble with simple for loops

2009-02-05 Thread Peter Reilly
you have to use the antlib.xml form of taskdef and not the antcontrib.properties form. The antcontrib.properties is for ant 1.5 and lower, the antlib.xml form is for ant 1.6 and higher. Use the following: @{iter} Peter On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Steve Liu wrote: > Hi, >

Re: ANT FTP Error

2009-01-20 Thread Peter Reilly
See: http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#librarydependencies you need commons-net.jar and (it seems) jakarta-oro.jar. Place these files in $HOME/.ant/lib, or in $ANT_HOME/lib and the ftp task should work. Peter On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:07 AM, VELPULA, Ashok Kumar wrote: > Hi > > > > I

Re: junittask includeantruntime attribute doesn't work as expected

2008-12-28 Thread Peter Reilly
You cannot use ant 1.7 with ant 1.6 jars. The ant 1.7 junit task is expecting ant 1.7 jars. Peter On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 2:59 PM, metcox wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to use junittask with fork mode on, on a project with ant > dependencies. > So I set includeantruntime to false and fork to true

Re: jdk version for compiling. SOS

2008-12-26 Thread Peter Reilly
You need to set target="1.4" as well as source="1.4". Peter On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Koxkorrita wrote: > hello > > > > In my pc i have installed the 1.6_10 jdk. > > i must to compile, for generate one war for one 5.0 tomcat that runs into > one 1.4 jdk, my classes. > > for this pourpose

Re: ANT javac tager option issue

2008-12-20 Thread Peter Reilly
ot;${compile.memory.max}"> > > > > > I'm curious if it has something to do with the fork. Curious if it is > truncating the values somehow on the passed command line. Trying that > now. > > E > > -Original Message-

Re: ANT javac tager option issue

2008-12-19 Thread Peter Reilly
You need source="1.4" as well. Peter On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Eric Wood wrote: > My java is a 1.5 compiler, but I running the javac using a target="1.4 > and the output keeps giving me JAVA 1.5 compiler errors: > > > >[javac] > /ClearCase_Storage/viewroot/Ecommerce/ecomm_commerce_sui

Re: How to figure out what is in my class path?

2008-11-24 Thread Peter Reilly
With current ant tasks, one cannot change the classpath used within build.xml. For junit and ant 1.7.0 +, one can set the location of the junit.jar file within the task itself - this is indeed the recommended way as it means that one does not need to modify the ant distribution or use -lib at the

Re: todir does not accept FQPN???

2008-11-09 Thread Peter Reilly
~ is a special shell character and is not understood by java and by ant. ${user.home} is the ant property for the user's home directory. Peter On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Patrick Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a properties file I have: > > # rapc and sigtool tasks require location of

Re: Using Ant Tasks programmatically - SignJar Tasl

2008-11-06 Thread Peter Reilly
Also be aware that the ant java code is not designed or created to be used as a library. Ant java code is written to read and execute ant xml scripts. Peter On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Mark Salter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Loughran wrote: >> There's some coverage of it the Ant docs

Re: path classpath

2008-10-26 Thread Peter Reilly
There is no difference in type. The classpath tag is normally a sub-element in of a task, and it corresponds (in java) to an Path type. The task may use different element names of the Path type for different uses. For example has , , , and all of Path type. is an ant type - one can set a re

Re: Build in multiple java versions using Ant

2008-10-22 Thread Peter Reilly
It found that execing ant is the best way to get a 1.4 javac build. I use the following presetdef: Ant figures out where the java14 exe is set based on an enforced env variable: JAVA14_HOME.

Re: Custom element for jar task.

2008-09-11 Thread Peter Reilly
t a to define the new type. > I am already using a typedef. > > As in my original email: > > >classpath="${autoservice.classes}"/> > > > > > > > > > > Any more ideas? > > Thanks, John > > > 2008/

Re: Custom element for jar task.

2008-09-11 Thread Peter Reilly
You need to do a and not a to define the new type. Looking at the code: Jar: public void addConfiguredService(Service service) {} the new type should work. The reason that does not work is that the Sevice class does not extend Task and using will cause ant to use a proxy class, which wi

Re: Relative Paths in Imported Files

2008-08-26 Thread Peter Reilly
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Francisco Tolmasky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a common.xml file that I import in all my build.xml throughout my > project (subdirectories included). One of the tasks defined in this > common.xml has to reference a file in a java task, as so: > > > >

Re: Problem with

2008-08-22 Thread Peter Reilly
You may need to set the character encoding on the loadproperties. See: http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTypes/filterchain.html#classconstants peter On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Jim Showalter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having problems getting this to work as described. I am using Ant >

Re: 'clean' target specifying all files 'except' a given fileset

2008-06-16 Thread Peter Reilly
This would work. However, it it very dangerous, it it too easy to delete stuff that you do not wont to. I would place *all* the generated artifacts of a build in a special directory - "build" or "target", and for the clean target, simply delete that directory. Peter On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 4

Re: Depends="init" problem

2008-06-16 Thread Peter Reilly
each creates a new project, targets in each project are independent of targets with the same name in other projects. Peter On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Bourzeix, Hervé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You may have antcall in your code. Antcall don't pay attention to the depends > list. > > reg

Re: how to echo propertyset to file?

2008-06-05 Thread Peter Reilly
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Rebhan, Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -Original Message- > From: Peter Reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 11:53 AM > To: Ant Users List > Subject: Re: how to echo propertyset to file

Re: how to echo propertyset to file?

2008-06-05 Thread Peter Reilly
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Gilbert Rebhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, David > > David Weintraub schrieb: >> >> Just curious... Where is the ${tostring:} function and other types of This should be toString - it is case sensitive >> functions documented in Ant There are currently no other f

Re: script problem

2008-05-28 Thread Peter Reilly
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Dave Pawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/5/28 Peter Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Wait for ant 1.7.1. > > Thanks Peter. Any due date (roughly)? There is a beta out, http://people.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.7.1beta2/ I assume that

Re: script problem

2008-05-28 Thread Peter Reilly
Wait for ant 1.7.1. On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Dave Pawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/5/28 Knuplesch, Juergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Do you have bsf.jar in the ANT-classpath? >> (You can copy it in the lib-Folder of ANT) >> >> See "Ant-Tasks"-"Library dependencies" in >> http://an

Re: Calling a cmd batch file from Ant

2008-05-28 Thread Peter Reilly
There can be issues with using and - they are in the same VM - there can be "leakages" between projects. - the rules for basedir are a bit weird I use the following (on linux): and:

Re: Class-Path not recognised from MANIFEST.MF

2008-05-22 Thread Peter Reilly
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Toomey, Kevin H (ATS, IT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "What about a application which needs multiple jar files on its > classpath, does all these files (dependencies) needs to be specified > using the -classpath attribute on command line" > > Yes. > Not quite. The

Re: Strip directory from fileset includesfile jar location

2008-05-20 Thread Peter Reilly
class path. is there another way of setting log4j up? > > > Peter Reilly-2 wrote: >> >> 1) placing log4j.properties in the top level of a jar file is a crime >> against good practice >> >> 2) do it by: >> >> >> >>

Re: Strip directory from fileset includesfile jar location

2008-05-20 Thread Peter Reilly
1) placing log4j.properties in the top level of a jar file is a crime against good practice 2) do it by: Peter On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Tom Corcoran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Doing the following creates a sub directory properties in my jar with my > groo

Re: JUnit crash after successful run

2008-05-14 Thread Peter Reilly
Ant does not distribute junit.jar, so the junit.jar file in your $ANT_HOME/lib directory would have been placed there independently. With ant 1.7, the best practice is not to place a junit.jar file in $ANT_HOME/lib. Instead, one should use the classpath element of the junit task, and use a project

Re: ANT: charsets in replace-task

2008-05-08 Thread Peter Reilly
wrote: > Hi, > > I did this. But the main problem is not showing the file, because when I open > the file through the explorer the content is shown. > > The main problem ist, that the special characters are replaced by some other > charcters. > > > For example: > > Original characters: > Zàèìòù

Re: classloader problem?

2008-05-07 Thread Peter Reilly
Also remember to use the classloader that loaded the custom task as the parent for the new classloader created in the task. Peter On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Christofer Jennings wrote: > > > I think I have a classloader problem. > > > > I've made

Re: FW: Trouble with installation

2008-04-30 Thread Peter Reilly
Looking at the JAVA_HOME setting: JAVA_HOME=C:\Progra~1\Java\jdk1.5.0_15; You have a trailing '";", this may not be good. Peter On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Debbie Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I tried reinstalling Ant into c:\Ant, but I'm still getting the > same results. > >

Re: Problem to use ant contrib

2008-04-30 Thread Peter Reilly
Also, the taskdef defines a namespace uri (antlib:net.sf.antcontrib) but the script does not bind this to a namespace prefix and in any case does not use a namespace prefix with the tag. the definition should be something like this: ... or (ant 1.7) .. Peter On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 9:

Re: Exec task: Args not passed to task

2008-04-28 Thread Peter Reilly
can you make a selfcontained build.xml that shows the problem, this will help in tracking down the problem. Also, can you open a bugzilla issue for the problem, this will help in tracking the issue. Peter On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Xavi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I tried it too.

Re: Any tool for ant build.xml file documentation

2008-04-23 Thread Peter Reilly
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Pawson wrote: > > > On 23/04/2008, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Ant is namespace aware, it merely chooses not to ignore content in > other > > > namespaces, as it assumes they are tasks de

Re: Any tool for ant build.xml file documentation

2008-04-23 Thread Peter Reilly
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Pawson wrote: > > > > > > It would help if ant were namespace aware, then additional documentation > > could be added in another namespace. > > > > Ant is namespace aware, it merely chooses not to ignore content in

Re: sshexec ant task command not found

2008-04-11 Thread Peter Reilly
dir mkdir etc are not (as far as i know) exe es in windows they are built-in to cmd.exe you may need to do something like: command ="cmd /c dir E:\Share". Peter On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:39 AM, neitcouq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a target in build.xml like that: > > >

Re: Argument difficulties with Apply

2008-04-02 Thread Peter Reilly
you may need to use instead of value="" Peter On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Matt Benic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am having trouble using Apply on a proprietary third party tool. The tool > is a packaging utility which (bizarrely) cannot take wildcard or folder > parameters, so eac

Re: Need to find current directory (not entire path)

2008-03-31 Thread Peter Reilly
Peter On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 8:51 PM, mindspin311 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If I have the following path: /blah/foo/trunk/ > > I want to be able to assign just "trunk" to a property, similar to dirname: > > > > This returns the whole path. I just want it to return the last ele

Re: NPE in Ant 1.7.0

2008-03-27 Thread Peter Reilly
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Xavier Hanin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Peter Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Buck, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > so obvi

Re: NPE in Ant 1.7.0

2008-03-27 Thread Peter Reilly
remove references from tasks, or place these tasks outside targets. Peter > /Bob > > > > -Original Message- > From: Peter Reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:12 AM > To: Ant Users List > Subject: Re: NPE in Ant 1.7.0 &

Re: NPE in Ant 1.7.0

2008-03-27 Thread Peter Reilly
Thanks for report - and the build file. This has not been reported before, please add a bug report. This error is also present int the ant 1.7.1beta build and the trunk. In general, however, ant 1.7.0 can support multiple targets, I (and a gillzillion others) use them all the time), there must b

Re: problem with copy task

2008-03-27 Thread Peter Reilly
if="${src.lib.dir}"> should be if="src.lib.dir" as the if attribute uses the presence or absence of the property and not on the value of the property. also, you may need to do **/*.jar instead of "*.jar" to get jars in sub-directories. Peer On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Luca Ferrari <[EMAIL

Re: Having problem using property to in macrodef if invoke for more than one time

2008-03-27 Thread Peter Reilly
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 7:34 AM, CheeYang Chau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A common, if not so nice solution, is to use an attribute value as > > a property name. > > > > For example: > > > > > > > > > > value="@{module}"

Re: Having problem using property to in macrodef if invoke for more than one time

2008-03-27 Thread Peter Reilly
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:23 AM, CheeYang Chau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do run the macrodef in parallel using parallel task. Do you think > using var task will work ? There are lots of tasks that are *not* safe with using in the task and is one of them. If possible do not use Peter > >

Re: Having problem using property to in macrodef if invoke for more than one time

2008-03-27 Thread Peter Reilly
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 5:51 AM, CheeYang Chau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I love the macrodef task. However, it has a weakness. We must be very > careful if using property within the macrodef. I face problem with a > macrodef that is more complicated than the following example. I ha

Re: Issues with building custom Ant task and using it in same build?

2008-03-25 Thread Peter Reilly
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Karr, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have to write a custom Ant task to get some detailed data out of > Perforce into some properties, and then I need to use those properties > in following steps of a build. Are there any difficulties in having my > build

Re: Ant script for building Javadoc, is there a way to bundle common tags?

2008-03-14 Thread Peter Reilly
I have a patch for macrodef which allows macrodef to have (nearly) arbitrary xml fragments: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/"; packagelistLoc="javadoc/j2se-1.5.0"/> http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/api/"; packagelistLoc="javadoc/javaee-5"/> http://lab.

Re: taskdef question - only usable at project level?

2008-03-11 Thread Peter Reilly
Most likely the typedef has been called from an or an . peter On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- "Scot P. Floess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'd like to call either in a or a > > . > > However, when doing so it seems as if the call is >

Re: How to get the filename of a dirset - not the full path?

2008-03-10 Thread Peter Reilly
Use basename to get name of the dir. Peter On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Rob Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now that I have a list of directories, I would like to get the directory > NAME rather than the full path - I am trying to use the name to create > directories elsewhere and copy

Re: Repeating a task for a list of directories

2008-03-10 Thread Peter Reilly
The first has a "/" in front of the lib. -> this is an absolute path. Peter On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Rob Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought I would give some feedback, it seems that I made two mistakes... > > 1) I typed the incorrect version number, so this was why it could n

Re: Repeating a task for a list of directories

2008-03-06 Thread Peter Reilly
Yes, normally I keep a lib/ant/-plugin-name-/(jars needed for the plugin) directory structure and have a ant-contrib.xml importable file to configure the plugin: (note that for ant 1.7.0 you do not need to specify resource when the uri is an antlib:) Peter

Re: Incremental Build Impementation...

2008-03-06 Thread Peter Reilly
The normal way to deal with this is to accept that the dependency checks in ant are not complete (in fact they are completely brain-dead) and do ant clean very often. For example, using Continuous integration, always do a clean target (which removes *ALL* build generated artifacts) before the main

Re: Import task defined in other build file?

2008-03-05 Thread Peter Reilly
Use and not Peter On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Andrew n marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it possible to define a task in one ant build file, but use it in > another? For example, I want to have a single build file that contains > the properties and tasks to download a copy of s

Re: task, inheritAll=false and ant.version property

2008-03-03 Thread Peter Reilly
This is a bug in ant 1.7.0, it has been fixed and will be in the soon to be released 1.7.1. https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42263 Peter On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Keith Hatton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems that something has changed between Ant 1.6.2 and 1.7.0 in th

Re: AW: cannot open ant 1.6.5 zip file

2008-02-28 Thread Peter Reilly
I used ant 1.7.0 with seam last year without a problem. Peter On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:19 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the download still failed with the error i stated above. :-( > > Jan, I'm try to run the JBoss Seam which only ant 1.6 is > applicable. > > Please help. Th

Re: env.COMPUTERNAME not working in linux

2008-02-26 Thread Peter Reilly
>From a console, run the command "env" to see the environment variables. On unix/linux the env variable "HOSTNAME" is normally used to get the name of the computer. (Although on my current machine this is "localhost.localdomain"). Peter On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Ramu Sethu <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Building a Jar for SPI application

2008-02-25 Thread Peter Reilly
does not work in ant 1.7.0 (due to a typeo error). Easiest way to add services is simplly to create the service file in the correct location: src/jar-src/META-INF/services/com.example.apis.API for example Peter On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 6:27 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ? > > Jan >

Re: ant_home problem

2008-02-25 Thread Peter Reilly
Please ensure that you are not using jpackage verion of ant. Check the file /etc/ant.conf. This file overwrites ANT_HOME. Peter On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 4:56 AM, Chun Ji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What happen if you type " which ant", is it point to > "/usr/local/ant-1.6.4/bin/ant" ? > If

Re: Issue with fileset of copy task

2008-02-14 Thread Peter Reilly
? this has already been answered ? On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 8:15 AM, dheeraj tandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have 2 machines and both has same ant(1.6.5) and java(1.5) versions. > > When i compile a code in both the machine, > > Machine 1 acts correctly. But in Machine2 the fileset

Re: Incomprehensible warning from new Ant

2008-02-14 Thread Peter Reilly
The message means that the reference has been defined in a target that has not been invoked at the time where the reference is used. For example: so which "compile.path" is used when: ant 1 run ant run ant 2 run In ant 1.7.0,

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