Ant jar task unable to rename old file

However, if I am facing that only in the case of a manifest update. If I remove the target which updates the manifest, then the script completes but I fail with classnotfoundexceptions as the manifest is not updated with the appropriate classpaths. Can you please help? Comment 4 Stefan Bodewig UTC It would be good if you could provide a small testcase build file, I'll give it a try myself. Are you running Windows? The file which you have shared works well with 1. Comment 10 Stefan Bodewig UTC In case my last question sounded a bit rude, sorry about that, that wasn't intended.

In order to fix the problem you see, we will need to figure out what the difference between your testcase and my minimal snippet is.

In an ideal world we'd be able to distill a reproducable testcase. Delete the lib directory, including all files and subdirectories of lib. Delete all files with the extension. Delete the Subversion metadata directories under src. The file to delete, specified as either the simple filename if the file exists in the current base directory , a relative-path filename, or a full-path filename.

The directory to delete, including all its files and subdirectories. Note : dir is not used to specify a directory name for file ; file and dir are independent of each other.

Warning : Do not set dir to. Active 1 year, 9 months ago. Viewed 6k times. I'm using ant 1. In my build. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes.

It's unfortunate though, because I have to remember to add this to every upstream javac task. Can you explain what you mean by "explicitly set the javac task's classpath"? It's a rather large set of jars that is used in several other places, so hard-coding them isn't really an option, and I'm not sure why it would make a difference. They are saying that this is fixed in Ant version 1.

Faisal Feroz Faisal Feroz I tried latest version of ANT 1. Since Ant 1. If tofile denotes an existing file, or there is a directory by the same name in todir , the action will fail. You can define file name transformations by using a nested mapper element. Note that the source name handed to the mapper depends on the resource collection you use.

In any other case the absolute filename of the source will be used. Give the moved files the same last modified time as the original source files. Note : Ignored on Java 1.