I would use the <mkdir> task to create the directory. I would also consider
deleting the directory before the mkdir.
Is there a need for the multi-line <condition>?
Ant is not intended to be a scripting language.
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Anna Teittinen <ateitti...@i-a-i.com>wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am relatively new to using ant.
> Can somebody help me with a problem I have in my build.xml file?
> Below is a snippet of code from my build.xml file.
> Below, "caratsharp.dir" refers to a directory.
> Basically, if that directory exists, then the clean, prepare, jar, and
> copy_jar targets will get called; otherwise, an error msg should be printed
> and nothing more happens.
>
> When this build.xml is called when the "caratsharp.dir" directory exists,
> all the antcall commands get done... great!
> However, when I run this script when the "caratsharp.dir" directory does
> not exist, the error msg does not get printed.
>
> Does anyone have any insight to why the error msg ("${caratsharp.dir} does
> not exist") does not get printed?
>
>
> <target name="checkForCaratSharpDir">
> <available property="present" file="${caratsharp.dir}" />
> <available property="isaDir" file="${caratsharp.dir}" type="dir" />
> <condition property="isaDir">
> <and>
> <isset property="present" />
> <not>
> <isset property="isaFile" />
> </not>
> </and>
> </condition>
> </target>
> <target name="exists" depends="checkForCaratSharpDir" if="present">
> <echo message="${caratsharp.dir} exists" />
> <antcall target="clean" />
> <antcall target="prepare" />
> <antcall target="jar" />
> <antcall target="copy_jar" />
> </target>
> <target name="printError" depends="checkForCaratSharpDir" if="isaFile">
> <echo message="${caratsharp.dir} does not exist" />
> </target>
> <target name="all" depends="exists,printError" description="Cleans,
> compile then builds the JAR file." />
>
>
>
> Thanks so much in advance for your help,
> --Anna
>
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