You misunderstand how <ant> works. It is used to call another ant script,
and execute it. In your example, it is calling the same ant script that is
running, and default target, which I guess is 'build'.

Whatever you have set as basedir="" in your <project> will be ${basedir},
and by default, it is '.' Then you can base all of your other directories
off ${basedir}.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: BATCHELOR, SCOTT (CONTRACTOR) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 10:55 AM
> To: user@ant.apache.org
> Subject: Error message
> 
> 
> Ant Newbie here.
> 
> Can someone give me a clue as to what this message is implying?
> 
> ant task calling a target that depends on its parent target 'build'
> 
> 
> It appears to have to do something with this directive.
> 
>  <target name="build" 
>           description="Compile jtc">
>     <mkdir dir="${build.dir}/classes" />
>     <mkdir dir="${lib.dir}" />
>     
>     <ant dir="">  <---when I clear out the directory name 
> here to use the current directory I am get this error
> 
> 
> TIA
> 
> -SB
> 

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