Hi Larry,
I too have suffered this sort of problem, only it is a little more
pervasive because the "clean" target can scrub things referenced
elsewhere (I have a two-level build process, the top level can drive the
builds for all the subsystems, each subsystem has a build.xml that builds
that entire subsystem, a side-effect of the political climate at my current
contract). Anyway, what I did is have my top-level check for the
existence of the files and set a variable to "." instead of the proper
path before <ant> ing the subsystem levels. I'm not thrilled with the
hack this implies, so I may submit a patch to allow a "nofail" attribute
on a fileset that will prevent what you are seeing...
-Peter
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry V. Streepy, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 9:12 AM
> To: ant user mail list
> Subject: path/fileset and missing directories
>
>
> Ok, time for my stupid question of the week. Since the email archives
> are out of commission right now I don't feel too guilty... :-)
>
> I'm trying to setup a path, which is referenced numerous times in the
> remainder of the build file. However, I want to use a nested
> fileset so
> I can avoid listing the .zip files discretely (since they change
> depending on the platform being built on). Here's the snippet:
>
> <!-- weblogic pieces of the path -->
> <path id="wl.path">
> <pathelement location="${wl.home}/lib/weblogicaux.jar" />
> <pathelement location="${wl.home}/classes" />
> <pathelement
> location="${wl.cyberplus.dir}/mssqlserver4v70/classes" />
> <fileset dir="${wl.cyberplus.dir}/OracleJDBC/lib">
> <include name="**/*.zip"/>
> </fileset>
> </path>
>
> <property name="wl.path" refid="wl.path"/>
>
>
> Ok, works just peachy, except on a cleanly installed box wherein the
> mssqlserver and OracleJDBC directories do not yet exist. In that case,
> the build fails when trying to create the fileset because the
> specified
> "dir" does not exist. Part of my build process will create these
> directories (by extracting them from tar balls in the source
> tree), but
> I can't get the build to even start in this initial state.
>
> So, any ideas on how to get around this problem?
>
> TIA.
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