I am a new user of ANT, and the first problem I've been unable to solve on my
own is a CVS problem. (I didn't construct the build.xml file myself; I was
handed an incomplete project, on which I'm trying to come up to speed.)
<property name="cvs.quiet" value="true"/>
<macrodef name="cvs-checkout">
<attribute name="package"/>
<sequential>
<cvs cvsRoot=":pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/kbm"
passfile="${env.CVS_PASSFILE}" package="@{package}" failonerror="true"
output="@{package}.cvs.log" quiet="${cvs.quiet}"/>
...
<target name="cvs-checkout-bundle">
<cvs-checkout package="bundle"/>
</target>
Results in:
[cvs] cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot rename file .new.emp-common.jar to
emp-common.jar: File exists
BUILD FAILED
However, when I use CVS update directly it works just fine.
The mentioned log file has a nice U line for the mentioned file (though as you
see it didn't fully get updated.) I passed in -Dcvs.quiet=false but that just
showed me "[cvs] cvs checkout: Updating" lines for each prior directory, as one
would expect.
Searching for similar error messages found me other people who had cannot
renames with Permission Denied, but that's not my problem. One person with CVS
problems recommended using an EXEC task instead, which I'm considering, but
wanted to see if there was any suggestion to how to debug this using the CVS
task.
Extremely strangely, .java files got updated when I ran it on a different
package. Now, unfortunately, I can't make spurious changes to the repository
in order to experiment to fins out if it's only .jars, or only THAT .jar, or
whatever. But it's very worrisome to have an unexplained failure in the build
-- when this stuff goes live it'll be very bad to have it break at midnight
like this!
I'm using Windows XP; I think the CVS repository is on a unix machine, but I
don't honestly know (and I don't have access to that machine). I have Ant
1.7.0. What could have gone wrong with the CVS task, and what can I do to get
more information about the problem? I hate mysterious messages!
Judy Anderson
Rocket Software
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