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http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23588 Build errors when source tar.gz extracted with Winzip ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-10-03 18:09 ------- Antonio, I think you missed the point I'm making. I *do* know how to use Winzip :-) The Use Folder Names checkbox *is* checked. All the files were extracted into their correct directory structure. The problem is that *empty* directories (e.g. in blocks which don't have any extra jars in their lib directories, or the stx block which doesn't have anything in its java directory) don't get recreated, and this leads to exceptions being generated during the Ant build which makes it fail. It's a problem with Winzip and tar.gz archives. I don't know if it affects the zip archive too; I always download the compressed tars if available as they're smaller :-) However, Winzip is widespread enough I'd hope something could be done to work around its deficiencies? I had the exact same problem with Netbeans - in its case, the work, temp and logs directories for its embedded Tomcat installation didn't get recreated, leading to exceptions being produced when you started the IDE. To avoid this, they now have a zero byte file named "dummy" in each of those directories to ensure they get created.
