I don't see TARdistributionDir being set to a value anywhere in the code you provided. Is it set properly prior to the unTar target being run?
HTH Bill -----Original Message----- From: Bob Scaggs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 10:33 AM To: user@ant.apache.org Subject: "java.io.IOException: Negative seek offset" while expanding .tar file I am getting an error when I use the unzip task to expand a tar file created using the tar task. Below is a sample of the code I am executing as well as the error I am recieving. Can anyone help with this? listing of build.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <project name="TarTest" default="unTar" basedir="."> <property name="tardir" value="${basedir}/tar" /> <property name="buildTemp" value="${basedir}/buildTemp" /> <property name="TestFilesDir" value="${buildTemp}/TestFilesDir" /> <property name="expandedFilesDir" value="${basedir}/expandedFiles" /> <!-- expand the tar file --> <target name ="unTar" depends="makeTar" > <unzip src="${tardir}/test.tar" dest="${TARdistributionDir}" /> </target> <!-- create the tar file --> <target name ="makeTar" depends="buildTestFiles" > <mkdir dir="${tardir}"/> <tar destfile="${tardir}/test.tar" basedir="${buildTemp}" /> </target> <!-- create some files --> <target name="buildTestFiles" depends="prepareDirs" > <concat destfile="${TestFilesDir}/file1.txt">This is file1</concat> <concat destfile="${TestFilesDir}/file2.txt">This is file2</concat> <concat destfile="${TestFilesDir}/file3.txt">This is file3</concat> </target> <!-- create reqrd dirs --> <target name="prepareDirs" > <mkdir dir="${tardir}"/> <mkdir dir="${buildTemp}"/> <mkdir dir="${TestFilesDir}"/> <mkdir dir="${expandedFilesDir}"/> </target> </project> Result of "ant -verbose" using the above build file: C:\test>ant -verbose Apache Ant version 1.6.2 compiled on July 16 2004 Buildfile: build.xml Detected Java version: 1.4 in: C:\Progra~1\IBM\Rational\SDP\6.0\runtimes\base_v6 \_jvm\jre Detected OS: Windows XP parsing buildfile C:\test\build.xml with URI = file:///C:/test/build.xml Project base dir set to: C:\test Build sequence for target `unTar' is [prepareDirs, buildTestFiles, makeTar, unTa r] Complete build sequence is [prepareDirs, buildTestFiles, makeTar, unTar, ] prepareDirs: [mkdir] Created dir: C:\test\tar [mkdir] Created dir: C:\test\buildTemp [mkdir] Created dir: C:\test\buildTemp\TestFilesDir [mkdir] Created dir: C:\test\expandedFiles buildTestFiles: makeTar: [tar] added as C:/test/tar/test.tar doesn't exist. [tar] TestFilesDir added as C:/test/tar/test.tar doesn't exist. [tar] TestFilesDir\file1.txt added as C:/test/tar/test.tar doesn't exist. [tar] TestFilesDir\file2.txt added as C:/test/tar/test.tar doesn't exist. [tar] TestFilesDir\file3.txt added as C:/test/tar/test.tar doesn't exist. [tar] Building tar: C:\test\tar\test.tar unTar: Property ${TARdistributionDir} has not been set [unzip] Expanding: C:\test\tar\test.tar into C:\test\${TARdistributionDir} BUILD FAILED C:\test\build.xml:10: Error while expanding C:\test\tar\test.tar at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Expand.expandFile(Expand.java:128) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Expand.execute(Expand.java:92) 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) Caused by: java.io.IOException: Negative seek offset at java.io.RandomAccessFile.seek(Native Method) at org.apache.tools.zip.ZipFile.positionAtCentralDirectory(ZipFile.java( Compiled Code)) at org.apache.tools.zip.ZipFile.populateFromCentralDirectory(ZipFile.jav a:235) at org.apache.tools.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:142) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Expand.expandFile(Expand.java:117) ... 11 more --- Nested Exception --- java.io.IOException: Negative seek offset at java.io.RandomAccessFile.seek(Native Method) at org.apache.tools.zip.ZipFile.positionAtCentralDirectory(ZipFile.java( Compiled Code)) at org.apache.tools.zip.ZipFile.populateFromCentralDirectory(ZipFile.jav a:235) at org.apache.tools.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:142) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Expand.expandFile(Expand.java:117) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Expand.execute(Expand.java:92) 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) Total time: 1 second --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
