Did you remember to put these files in your class path? When I first started to use optional.jar, this was my mistake.
i.e. you need: CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;/ant/lib/optional.jar;/ant/lib/oro.jar Hope this helps, Jim --- Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have put in the optional.jar and the oro.jar file in /ant/lib and I > still get: > BUILD FAILED > > p:\cpdev\main\src\run_build.xml:23: Could not create task of type: > classpath. Co > mmon solutions are to use taskdef to declare your task, or, if this > is an option > al task, to put the optional.jar in the lib directory of your ant > installation ( > ANT_HOME). > at > org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.makeTask(UnknownElement.java:153) > > at > org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.maybeConfigure(UnknownElement.jav > a:83) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:216) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:184) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:202) > 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) > > Thanks > Marcus > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>