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From: "Martin Monsorno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 05:23
Subject: How to warn when jar-file in classpath does not exist?
> Hi *,
>
> I have the following problem: I add a jar-file to the classpath I use
> for compiling like this:
>
> <path id="project.compile.path">
> <pathelement location="${global.module.dir}/bla.jar" />
> </path>
>
> If the jar-file does not exist in this place, ant removes it quietly
> from the classpath it handles over to the java compiler. Even with -v
> there is no error message printed.
>
> Is this the desired behaviour? Can I make ant print a warning message
> to the screen in case the file does not exist? Or must I check the
> file myself?
standard practise is to use <available> to probe for a class you need; that
decouples you from knowing where the class is implemented, then conditional
<fail> if you really need that class to be there
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