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http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43426 Summary: <symlink> cant create a symlink over a file, whereas ln -sf does allow you Product: Ant Version: 1.7Alpha (nightly) Platform: Other OS/Version: other Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: Optional Tasks AssignedTo: dev@ant.apache.org ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you create a file with <touch>, you can't link over it using <symlink>, but ln -sf lets you do it quite happily. <target name="testCreateOverFile" depends="init" if="unix"> <touch file="${build.dir}/link3" /> <symlink overwrite="true" link="${build.dir}/link3" resource="${file_ref}"/> </target> /home/slo/Java/Apache/ant/src/tests/antunit/taskdefs/optional/unix/symlink-test.xml:52: Unable to overwrite preexisting link: /home/slo/Java/Apache/ant/src/tests/antunit/taskdefs/optional/unix/build/link3 at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.unix.Symlink.handleError(Symlink.java:472) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.unix.Symlink.doLink(Symlink.java:493) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.unix.Symlink.single(Symlink.java:167) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:76) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:357) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:385) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1337) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1306) at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1189) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:758) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:217) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:257) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:104) We should resort to using ln -sf to force through actions if overwrite=true, and downgrade this fault a verbose message -- Configure bugmail: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
