Hi all,
I've just spent a relatively frustrating day trying to work out
why the hell my <tar> was ignoring my <patternset> <exclude>.
It turns out that my file looked like this:
<patternset id="lw.excludes" >
<exclude name="**/javax/**" />
</patternset>
In my <javac>
<javac srcdir="${master.src}"
destdir="${master.classes}" >
<patternset id="lw.excludes" />
<classpath refid = "compile.cp" />
</javac>
And my <tar>
<tar tarfile="${master.dist}/lcrypto-${master.tarfile}.tar" >
<tarfileset dir="${master.home}/" >
<patternset refid="lw.tar" />
<patternset refid="lw.excludes" />
<patternset refid="tar.extras" />
</tarfileset>
</tar>
Now all the people here are going to point out that this is
because I've redefined <patternset> in the <javac>. However,
that wasn't all that obvious. The <javac> task should be
<patternset refid="lw.excludes" />
A subtle but important distinction. ;-) This applies to
pretty much anything that can be 'id' and then 'refid'
later on.
A "'refid' used where 'id' expected" type warning would be
really, really nice.
Cheers,
-- jon
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Jon Eaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.eaves.org/jon/
