It just means your compiler should have (assuming it's in any way reasonable) provided error messages saying what went wrong with the compile. This question has come up often enough to make me think we should probably change what Ant says -- maybe something like: "Compile failed. Refer to error messages provided by the compiler for more details." Diane --- JohnA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a error in my source code. ant compiles with jikes, works ok, > displays the error just fine. But then it adds the following > (with -verbose option): > > > BUILD FAILED > > D:\projects\utjava2\build.xml:24: Compile failed, messages should have > been provided. > at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Javac.execute(Javac.java:506) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:217) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:164) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:182) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:601) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:560) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:454) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.start(Main.java:153) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.main(Main.java:176) > > What does "messages should have been provided" mean? "provided" by whom? > what "messages"? etc. > > The build.xml:24 line is the javac line. > > JohnA > ===== ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com
