no response in last thread, I'll try a new one...
> -----Original Message-----
>
> the problem is that I have a directory specified in my global
> classpath that
> doesn't always exist. in fact, I can't even run the task
> that creates the
> directory because I can't get past the initial parsing of the
> build.xml
> file.
>
> short term solution: I'm looking into appending the specific
> directory to
> the classpath in the targets that utilize it and removing it
> from the global
> classpath, but that's a bit contrary to using a global path
> in the first
> place.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pat
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Hewitt
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Sent: 7/10/2001 6:41 AM
> Subject: RE: criticism: property handling (here: no overwrite)
>
> [sorry to be late reading this]
>
> But this solution does not work if (as in my case) ${lib.dir} is
> created by another target.
>
> Any suggestions for this case?
>
> #!/mjh
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefano Mancarella [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 13 June 2001 15:06
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: criticism: property handling (here: no overwrite)
>
>
> From: "Christopher Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Conor hit the nail on the head. There are times when the
> path needs to
> > contain items which do not yet exist. In my case, this is actually
> > dependent on a Task firing -- I unpack different
> "distributions" which
> exist
> > initially as TAR.GZ files.
> > Ideally I want a single <path> defined (my Classpath) -- at
> the top of
> the
> > file -- which is used by reference in several Tasks. (The ol' Don't
> Repeat
> > Yourself rule again ;-). But that isn't possible right now
> because the
> > <path> element is evaluated up-front (and croaks). A lazy evaluation
> would
> > fix my situation.
>
> I had exactly the same problem.
> I've solved it using a nested <fileset> in my path definition which
> includes
> all jars in a directory. It works perfectly: my classpath
> contains also
> jars
> added to that directory after the path definition.
> Here's an example:
>
> <path id="cpath">
> <fileset dir="${lib.dir}" includes="*.jar" />
> </path>
>
> <target name="init">
> <copy file="${some.dir}/library1.jar" todir="${lib.dir}" />
> <get src="http://some.server.com/some.jar";
> dest="${lib.dir}/library2.jar"
> />
> ...
> </target>
>
> <target name="build" depends="init">
> <javac classpathref="cpath" srcdir="${src.dir}"
> destdir="${build.dir}"
> />
> </target>
>
