The following works initially <project name="cc-build" default="build" basedir=".">
<target name="build"> <delete dir="jinxweb" /> <cvs cvsRoot=":ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot" package="jinxweb" dest="." /> <ant antfile="build.xml" dir="jinxweb/jinxweb" /> </target> </project> But after defining CVSROOT , it I am getting the below mentioned exception. My system variable contains. ":ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot" After removing CVSROOT, I thought it would work but still same exceptions. Can you please help ? C:\cvssource>ant -verbose -f cc-build.xml <project name="cc-build" default="build" basedir="."> <target name="build"> <delete dir="jinxweb" /> <cvs command="co jinxweb" dest="."/> <ant antfile="build.xml" dir="jinxweb/jinxweb" /> </target> </project> Apache Ant version 1.6.2 compiled on July 16 2004 Buildfile: cc-build.xml Detected Java version: 1.4 in: C:\bea\jdk142_05\jre Detected OS: Windows XP parsing buildfile C:\cvssource\cc-build.xml with URI = file:///C:/cvssource/cc-b uild.xml Project base dir set to: C:\cvssource Build sequence for target `build' is [build] Complete build sequence is [build, ] [delete] Deleting C:\cvssource\jinxweb\jinxweb\web\message\CVS\Entries.Old [delete] Deleting C:\cvssource\jinxweb\jinxweb\web\message\CVS\Repository [delete] Deleting C:\cvssource\jinxweb\jinxweb\web\message\CVS\Root [delete] Deleting directory C:\cvssource\jinxweb\jinxweb\web\message\CVS [delete] Deleting C:\cvssource\jinxweb\jinxweb\web\message\index.html [delete] Deleting C:\cvssource\jinxweb\jinxweb\web\message\linkmenu.html [delete] Deleting C:\cvssource\jinxweb\jinxweb\web\message\main.html [delete] Deleting C:\cvssource\jinxweb\jinxweb\web\message\messagestage.html [delete] Deleting directory C:\cvssource\jinxweb\jinxweb\web\message UILD FAILED :\cvssource\cc-buildcvsroot.xml:5: Unable to delete directory C:\cvssource\jinx eb at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Delete.removeDir(Delete.java:607) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Delete.removeDir(Delete.java:587) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Delete.removeDir(Delete.java:587) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Delete.removeDir(Delete.java:587) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Delete.execute(Delete.java:498) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:275) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:364) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:341) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:369) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1214) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1062) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:673) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:188) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:196) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:55)