Summary:
copy identifies files are up to date while they aren't.
copy using filesets works.
Details
Extracted from main build file
<target name="web.build" depends="compile" description="do the web stuff">
<ant antfile="${src.dir}/no/bbc/basis/web/ex1/build.xml"
target="build">
<reference refid="build.classpath"/>
</ant>
</target>
Extracted from the called build file
("${src.dir}/no/bbc/basis/web/ex1/build.xml")
<target name="build" depends="compile">
<!-- this doesn't work in Ant 1.5 - probably a bug - kept to
remember... -->
<copy file="${src.ex1.dir}/web.xml" tofile="${build.ex1.dir}/web.xml" />
<copy file="${src.ex1.dir}/application.xml"
tofile="${build.ex1.dir}/application.xml" />
<!-- this does the job -->
<copy todir="${build.ex1.dir}" >
<fileset dir="${src.ex1.dir}" >
<include name="web.xml"/>
<include name="application.xml"/>
</fileset>
</copy>
</target>
Here is the verbose result of running ant web.build on the main build file
[...]
build:
[copy] P:\Basis_trunk\Basis\src\java\no\bbc\basis\web\ex1\web.xml
omitted as P:\Basis_trunk\Basis\build\classes\web1\web.xml is up to date.
[copy]
P:\Basis_trunk\Basis\src\java\no\bbc\basis\web\ex1\application.xml
omitted as P:\Basis_trunk\Basis\build\classes\web1\application.xml is up
to date.
[copy] application.xml added as
P:\Basis_trunk\Basis\build\classes\web1\application.xml doesn't exist.
[copy] web.xml added as
P:\Basis_trunk\Basis\build\classes\web1\web.xml doesn't exist.
[copy] Copying 2 files to P:\Basis_trunk\Basis\build\classes\web1
[copy] Copying
P:\Basis_trunk\Basis\src\java\no\bbc\basis\web\ex1\web.xml to
P:\Basis_trunk\Basis\build\classes\web1\web.xml
[copy] Copying
P:\Basis_trunk\Basis\src\java\no\bbc\basis\web\ex1\application.xml to
P:\Basis_trunk\Basis\build\classes\web1\application.xml
As you can see
<!-- this doesn't work in Ant 1.5 - probably a bug - kept to
remember... -->
<copy file="${src.ex1.dir}/web.xml"
tofile="${build.ex1.dir}/web.xml" />
<copy file="${src.ex1.dir}/application.xml"
tofile="${build.ex1.dir}/application.xml" />
doesn't work. File are though to be up to date while they do not exist.
I tried with option 'todir' instead of 'tofile': same results. But using
filesets works:
<copy todir="${build.ex1.dir}" >
<fileset dir="${src.ex1.dir}" >
<include name="web.xml"/>
<include name="application.xml"/>
</fileset>
</copy>
Didn't try with ant 1.5.1, but this doesn't appear in the changelog.
P:\>ant -version
Apache Ant version 1.5 compiled on July 9 2002
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