Stuart,
The (or another) problem is that the tar task doesn't transfer
permissions, I believe this is because its in Java which can't show
permissions. One possible solution is to write an Ant exec task that
uses the local tar.
Charles

Stuart Roebuck wrote:
> 
> Answering my own question, I've spotted that the latest Ant (and probably previous 
>versions too) doesn't recognise "Mac OS X" as a valid Unix and therefore disables the 
>Chmod task.  I've sent an appropriate patch to the ant-dev group.
> 
> Stuart.
> 
> On Tuesday, October 17, 2000, at 11:20 AM, Stuart Roebuck wrote:
> 
> > Entering "ant dist" worked faultlessly but for the "chmod" command on "run.sh" in
> > "build.xml" which, for some reason, doesn't appear to be setting the permissions.  
>That
> > said, I'm using the latest CVS of ant and not the one supplied in the James 
>distribution.
> >
> 
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