Please keep the discussion on the ant list. You might want to ask the tomcat list for help on this one.
-----Original Message----- From: BATCHELOR, SCOTT (CONTRACTOR) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 11:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Error message In all honesty I am just trying to build the jakarta-tomcat-connectors-1.2.10 with the provided build.xml files and seem to be running into a lot of problems. -SB -----Original Message----- From: Shatzer, Larry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 1:25 PM To: 'Ant Users List' Subject: RE: Error message What are you trying to accomplish? > -----Original Message----- > From: BATCHELOR, SCOTT (CONTRACTOR) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 11:23 AM > To: Ant Users List > Subject: RE: Error message > > > Yes obviously I do misunderstand as the script I am trying to > execute does this by default: > > <target name="build" > description="Compile jtc"> > <mkdir dir="${build.dir}/classes" /> > <mkdir dir="${lib.dir}" /> > > <ant dir="util"> > > But it fails also complaining that "util" does not exist. > > -SB > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shatzer, Larry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 12:58 PM > To: 'Ant Users List' > Subject: RE: Error message > > > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]