<project> <echo message="junk" file="foo" /> <copy verbose="true" file="foo" tofile="foo2" /> </project>
Ant copy task fails to copy file properly on AIX with Ant 1.8.0 and 1.8.1. The files appear to copy but end up empty. Switching between Java 1.5 and 1.6 had no effect when using Ant 1.8 or 1.8.1, but switching back to Ant 1.7 the copy task started working again. Apache Ant version 1.7.0 compiled on December 13 2006 Buildfile: copy.xml Detected Java version: 1.6 in: /plm/svnas/tc_ref/TOOLBOX/aix/JDK/jdk1.6.0_00/jre Detected OS: AIX [copy] Copying 1 file to /plm/svnas/uhome/dsd [copy] Copying /plm/svnas/uhome/dsd/foo to /plm/svnas/uhome/dsd/foo2 svibm006 (~) [27]la foo* -rw-r--r-- 1 dsd pdmusr 4 May 26 08:54 foo -rw-r--r-- 1 dsd pdmusr 4 May 26 08:54 foo2 Apache Ant version 1.8.1 compiled on April 30 2010 Buildfile: /plm/svnas/uhome/dsd/copy.xml Detected Java version: 1.6 in: /plm/svnas/tc_ref/TOOLBOX/aix/JDK/jdk1.6.0_00/jre Detected OS: AIX [copy] Copying 1 file to /plm/svnas/uhome/dsd [copy] Copying /plm/svnas/uhome/dsd/foo to /plm/svnas/uhome/dsd/foo2 svibm006 (~) [30]la foo* -rw-r--r-- 1 dsd pdmusr 4 May 26 08:55 foo -rw-r--r-- 1 dsd pdmusr 0 May 26 08:55 foo2