-----Original Message----- From: EJ Ciramella [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 20 October 2006 18:28 To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: Build successful but nothing produced >Most builds have a build directory associated with them. So src would >get compiled into classes (so src/com/package/foo.java would wind up in >classes/com/package/foo.class). Similarly, the "build" directory would >contain the results of the artifact build up (your jar and maybe a tar >containing scripts needed to run your classes in their jarred format). Changing the dist directory was all it needed, like you say the can't be the same. The project I have inherited has them the same and does not use a package name either, I'll have to refactor things. Got the file written out nicely with <propertyfile file="datetime.inc"> <entry key="CompileDateTimeStr" type="date" value="now" pattern="d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss"/> </propertyfile> Pity about the slashes appearing before the colon's in the output. I'll have to parse them out before displaying the date. -----Original Message----- From: Anderson, Rob (Global Trade) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 October 2006 19:31 To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: Build successful but nothing produced >The compile/dist options are not really options, they are arguments. The >arguments you supply to ant at runtime depend on what you want to do and >the targets that are defined in the build file. Not all build files will >define a compile or dist target... the names of targets are arbitrary. >That is why they are not mentioned in the documentation. Fair enough. A mentioned or link to how the arguments are used to compile/dist might be a clue :-) Thanks for all the help. Tom.