An easy way is to duplicate the dist if there is no problem. You can have 
dist/dist/jdom ... and build from the first dist.

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>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Tar base directory question
>Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 12:25:54 -0500
>
>I'm trying to create a tar ball with a specific base directory
>included in the tar file.  For example, I have a "dist" directory
>that I want to tar for distribution.  However, when I set
>the base directory as "dist", I get the files in the dist
>directory, but tar does include "dist" as part of the
>file path.  So when users extract the tar, all the files
>end up in the directory where it was extracted.  What I
>want is to have "dist" as the base directory inside the
>tar.  For Example:
>
>dist/jdom.jar
>dist/html/index.html
>etc.
>
>instead of:
>
>jdom.jar
>html/index.html
>
>No matter what I set base dir or tarfileset to, I can't get the
>tar task to include the base directory.  Any suggestions on
>how to fix this problem?  I've searched the web, the archives,
>and news groups without any luck.  Thanks.
>
>-Tom
>
>
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