RE: Need Help With Task

2006-09-13 Thread Kenneth McKnight
You need to use the fileset nested element to do this: Here's what you get (I used some dummy files so you can see that it works on subdirs as well): $ jar tvf mia_gui.jar 0 Wed Sep 13 10:22:10 PST 2006 META-INF/ 106 Wed Sep 13 10:22:08 PST 200

Trouble getting a merged inline and external manifest

2006-09-06 Thread Kenneth McKnight
I'm having trouble getting a merged inline and external manifest using the 'jar' task in ant 1.6.5. The manual says for the task: "If both an inline manifest and an external file are both specified, the manifests are merged." Here's a code snippet:

RE: extracting project revision number

2005-05-03 Thread Kenneth McKnight
Hi Brian, I'm definitely interested. We've just switched from cvs and svn. I'm in the process of replacing our home-grown build system with Ant and would love to latch into the svn revision, etc. For starters can you share with us what your custom task syntax looks like and a little more detail of

The type doesn't support the nested "echo" element

2005-04-08 Thread Kenneth McKnight
An offshore user running JDK 1.4.1_02 and Ant 1.6.1 is getting this strange message: The type doesn't support the nested "echo" element Here's the snippet of code: 'makeall' produces output like this: $ makeall bmesmall Using jvm.lib at "c:\local\jdk1.4.x\lib\jvm.lib" Root di