Hi All I'm new to ant.. I have a build file that does this to start with
[target name="init"] [property name="Jars" value="../../camsjar" /] [property name="Src" value="../src" /] [property name="Dest" value="../../deploycams/camsclasses" /] [property name="DeployDir" value="../../deploycams" /] [/target] [target name="mkdir" depends="init"] [delete dir="${Jars}" /] [mkdir dir="${Jars}" /] [mkdir dir="${Dest}"/] [mkdir dir="${DeployDir}" /] [/target] [target name="build" depends="mkdir"] [javac srcdir="${Src}/java" destdir="${Dest}"] [classpath] [pathelement location="/jdk1.3/jre/lib/ext/classes12.zip"/] [pathelement location="${Src}" /] [/classpath] [/javac] [/target] (The xml tages have been changed to [ and ]) The build fails on the delete dir in the mkdir section.. It says : init: mkdir: [delete] Deleting directory C:\cvs\work\camsjar [delete] Deleting C:\cvs\work\camsjar\cams.jar BUILD FAILED C:\cvs\work\cams\bin\..\deployment\build.xml:13: Unable to delete file C:\cvs\wo rk\camsjar\cams.jar at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Delete.removeDir(Delete.java:348) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Delete.execute(Delete.java:290) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:217) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:184) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:202) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:601) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:560) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:454) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.start(Main.java:153) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.main(Main.java:176) Total time: 1 second ie, if the jar file (that a previous run of ant created when it ran by manually deleting the Jar directory) exists, it cannot delete it. I'm running ant 1.4.1 on Win NT with jdk1.3 Any help would be appreciated.. Basically what I need is to delete all previously deployed directories, create the directories and then build with ant. Thanks (yes.. in advance) - Mak _____________________________________________________________ Get email for your site ---> http://www.everyone.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>