And besides that.... absolute paths have no place anywhere in build files!
:))
Erik
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zhendi Su" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: exclude attribute in javac task
> Thanks a lot, Erik!
>
> Zhendi
>
> Erik Hatcher wrote:
>
> > Yup.... because implicitly <javac> is using a fileset, which, by
definition,
> > is rooted at a single directory and all files for includes/excludes are
> > specified relative to that directory (srcdir).
> >
> > Erik
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Zhendi Su" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 1:52 PM
> > Subject: exclude attribute in javac task
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I noticed one weird thing about the exclude attribute in javac task:
> > >
> > > I have file called TestBase.java at /home/rsu/prototype/test_exclude.
> > > In my javac task if I specify the absolute path, the exclude attribute
> > > doesn't work. That is, if my javac looks like this:
> > >
> > > <javac srcdir="/home/rsu/prototype" destdir="/home/rsu/test"
> > > target="1.1" bootclasspath="/local/java/jdk1.1.8/lib/classes.zip"
> > > extdirs=" " excludes="/home/rsu/prototype/test_exclude/**" >
> > >
> > > After ant was finished I looked under /home/rsu/test and
TestBase.class
> > > was updated every time.
> > >
> > > But if I specify the relative path to the srcdir, the exclude
attribute
> > > works. That is, if my javac task looks like this:
> > >
> > > <javac srcdir="/home/rsu/prototype" destdir="/home/rsu/test"
> > > target="1.1" bootclasspath="/local/java/jdk1.1.8/lib/classes.zip"
> > > extdirs=" " excludes="test_exclude/**" >
> > >
> > > Then I looked under /home/rsu/test and TestBase.class was not updated.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know why? Thanks a lot!
> > >
> > > Zhendi Su
> > >
> >
>
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