I'm using Ant-1.6.5 and using a typedef to load up the Ant-Contrib tasks like so...
<typedef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml" uri="antlib:net.sf.antcontrib" classpathref="ant-contrib" onerror="report"/> I run this in the case that one hasn't put ant-contrib.jar in ${user.home}/.ant/lib. If the path reference "ant-contrib" is provided, it will be typedef'd using a locally provided jar. The problem is when the path reference isn't defined. I have onerror="report" and I expected that to continue on without stopping the build when the path reference "ant-contrib" doesn't exist. But instead I get "Reference ant-contrib not found". Why doesn't onerror="report" take care of this? Now, I realize I could write a condition to see if the reference exists, but this typedefing is done within a macrodef, so I can't use the normal pattern of an "unless" attribute on a target, at least not without leaking the implementation of the macrodef out to the external target calling the macrodef. And, of course, I can't use ant-contrib's <if>/<then> functionality before the typedef happens. So, first, shouldn't onerror="report" or onerror="ignore" avoid the failure? And second, is there any solution other than leaking the internal implementation of my macrodef to the targets using the macrodef? Jake --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]