RE: "jar"/zip problem

[J. Michael Caine]

thank you all for the suggestions.  i wish they helped, but unfortunately
they didn't.  just to approach the simplified problem systematically:

        jar cf test.jar *.class

run from within a directory containing .classes, works fine.

then, i wish to run 'ant', with a simple buildfile:

        <project name="test" default="dist">
                <target name="dist">
                <jar jarfile="test.jar" basedir="."/>
                </target>
        </project>

which gives the error message (i'll print that below).  so, i take babramo's
suggestion:

        <project name="test" default="dist">
                <target name="dist">
                <jar jarfile="./test.jar" basedir="." includes="**"/>
                </target>
        </project>

and get the same message.  so, i take Chandra's suggestion:

        <project name="test" default="dist">
                <target name="dist">
                <jar jarfile="./test.jar" basedir=".">
                        <fileset dir="." includes "*.class"/>
                </jar>
                </target>
        </project>

and this tells me "attribute name "fileset" must be followed by the '='
character".  i'd suspect depricated software but it's version 1.3.  isn't
the syntax correct?  am i missing something stupid?  (it's the same if i
take out the basedir= assignment, by the way, to make it look exactly like
an example)

help?

thank you.

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 1:06 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: "jar"/zip problem


try this
<target name="dist" depends="compile">
        <jar jarfile="${basedir}/build/it.jar"
             basedir="${basedir}/build"
             includes="${basedir}/build/**" />
</target>
hope it helps


-----Original Message-----
From: J. Michael Caine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 6:06 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: "jar"/zip problem


i was running 1.2-1 (the only version for which i found a Debian package).
compilations and such seemed to work fine, but the "jar" task was failing,
giving me:

"Problem creating jar: ZIP file must have at least one entry"
at java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream.finish(ZipOutputStream.java:294)
<rest of stack trace>

so i just installed 1.3, the latest binaries, and pointed to that.  again,
it worked fine, except for the "jar" task.  so i suspect there's something
wrong with my syntax, but it sure looks a lot like the example code.  i
have:

<target name="dist" depends="compile">
        <jar jarfile="${basedir}/build/it.jar" basedir="${basedir}/build"/>
</target>

could it be a problem with my java?  i have J2SDK 1.3.0-2.

oh, of course, there are .class files (only) in ${basedir}/build/.  i
checked that.