Perhaps the symlink task was added in 1.6? Maven uses ant-1.5.3-1. Ant is not specified in the plugins - it is in MAVEN_HOME/lib. You can't use ant 1.6 at the moment - it is incompatible. xalan is the most asked about dependency on ant:xslt, but not relevant to your question (just used as an example here).
To be honest, I've always done <ant:exec /> with "ln -s ... ..." as the command :) Sorry I can't help more on this. Cheers, Brett Quoting Maxwell Grender-Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I should add, just so you don't think I'm being really lazy that I've > tried doing a grep for some of the other ant:optional tasks in my > plugins directory, but not come up with anything... > > M > Maxwell Grender-Jones wrote: > > > Well, don't I feel stupid... You've very kindly answered my mail, and > > I'm still no closer to seeing what to do. > > > > As far as I can see the relevant task I'm trying to use (ant:symlink) > > has no dependencies (as indicated on > > http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#librarydependencies). > > However, it doesn't seem to do anything (and yes, I am running on a > > linux machine ;)) > > > > I've tried adding xalan (as per the bug report) though I think that > > might have been something of a cargo-cultism (I assume the point of > > doing that is to satisfy the ant dependencies). > > > > Am I still being really stupid? > > > > Thank you Brett! > > > > Max > > Brett Porter wrote: > > > >> Yes, they are included by default. You may need to add a dependency > >> on any extra > >> libs that you usually install in ANT_HOME/lib (eg xalan) and put it > >> in the root > >> classloader (see the FAQ) > >> > >> - Brett > >> > >> Quoting Maxwell Grender-Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > >> > >> > >>> I'm sorry if this has been asked before, but I couldn't obviously > >>> see the answer after some google research... > >>> > >>> Is it possible to use the ant-optional tasks with maven? > >>> > >>> Thank you > >>> > >>> Max > >>> > >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
