In make:
$(RM) -f $(DIR_CLASSES)/*
end of story! Works every time!
As for ant, what the heck is the "delete dir" construct
used/useful for if it can't do this???
Marvin Avery
-----Original Message-----
From: peter reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 9:43 AM
To: Ant Users List
Subject: Re: Ant newbie - simple question
On Wednesday 11 June 2003 15:30, Avery Marvin R wrote:
> First my complaint: this is trivial using make!
what is the command in make
and why cannot one use it in ant?
>
> Now the question: Why does the following seemingly
> simple and straight-forward ant xml
> script _not_ remove the subdirs under the
> classes dir (Windows NT OS)? Thanks in advance.
>
> <target name="clean">
> <delete dir="${dir_classes}/*"/>
> </target>
>
> NOTE: ** after the / doesn't work either!
>
> Marvin Avery
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