----- Original Message ----- From: "Diane Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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." I see. "Should have" as in "I detected an error, look back in the output for messages. I don't look for them myself but you will see some compiler errors. (If you don't, get a new compiler.)" and not as in "I was looking but I didn't see any messages, did you? Man that's weird, some *messages should have been provided*." :) Thanks for clearing that up. I like either your solution, or just "Compile failed." or even don't print anything at all. (Is there a compiler that gives a bad return code but does not print out an accompanying message?) John
