Do you mean that you are creating jar files with a manifest containing for
instance Main-Class: ${mainclass} instead of Main-Class: com.some
company.SomeApp ?
Ant does not enforce that properties be set before they are used. When an ant
task is invoked with the place holder ${someproperty} and someproperty is not
set then the task sees literally ${someproperty}.
What you can do to mitigate this risk is to add the following to your build file
<fail unless="someproperty" message="someproperty is not set" />
I hope this helps,
Antoine
Le 24 avr. 2014 09:43, "Miller, Gerald" <gerald.mil...@vistronix.com> a écrit :
>
> Sorry for the incomplete sentences. It's hard to see what I've typed,
> especially when every application uses slightly dark fonts on a slightly
> lighter background, so by the time I get to the end of a long sentence, it
> sometimes sounds rambling. Anyway, what I meant to say is that when I asked
> other people about this problem, they had no more clue than I did, which
> makes me feel better that I'm not the only one who doesn't find it intuitive.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miller, Gerald [mailto:gerald.mil...@vistronix.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 9:36 AM
> To: user@ant.apache.org
> Subject: Silent errors
>
> It turns out I'm not the only one here who simply modifies existing build
> files, although I have managed to exclude descendants of an included fileset
> dir attribute. When I asked why a non-existent Main-Class value wouldn't
> generate an error and, at least on one installation, still allow the correct
> one (and others not mentioned) to be accessed by their correct names. This
> lack of error messages, in contrast to compilers that warn about the most
> trivial things, doesn't help with diagnosing why one workspace is able to
> build a valid jar, while another while a copy possibly using different
> versions of Eclipse and Ant produces a jar that can't find the main class.
> There are all kinds of threads about this problem, all with different
> suggestions. I could spend a lot of time trying them if I were so inclined,
> but most of their examples don't even resemble my build file. Any idea if
> this is a red herring or not? Thanks.
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