"condition" is a built-in task that was added to Ant in version 1.4.
Is it possible that you are using an earlier version of Ant?
You can check it with "ant -version".
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harris Reynolds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 1:56 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Quick Build Question
>
>
> Hello. Below I pasted my attempt to build axis on my home
> machine. Unfortuneately it failed. I have all of the
> libraries mentioned in the Developer Guide in my classpath.
> I also downloaded the optional.jar file and added it to my
> ANT_HOME\lib directory. Is there something I am missing to
> execute the build?
>
> Thanks,
>
> harris
>
> Copied from screen......
>
> C:\packages\xml-axis-beta1\java>ant compile
> Buildfile: build.xml
>
> setenv:
>
> BUILD FAILED
>
> C:\packages\xml-axis-beta1\java\build.xml:170: Could not
> create task of type: condition. Common solutions are to use
> taskdef to declare your task, or, if this is an optional
> task, to put the optional.jar in the lib directory of your
> ant installation (ANT_HOME).
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