Ant contrib pathelement

[Liming Xu]

hello again,

I'm using antcontrib and I'm trying to setup the location of its lib in a custom location say /home/lxu/lib/ant-contrib.jar, so in my build.xml I define...

<taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties">
<classpath>
<pathelement location="/home/lxu/lib/ant-contrib.jar"/>
</classpath>
</taskdef>

This works fine. Now, I'm trying to name the location path into a build.properties file say

antcontrib.lib=/home/lxu/lib

so in my build.xml I have

<property file="build.properties" />
<taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties">
<classpath>
<pathelement location="${antcontrib.lib}/ant-contrib.jar"/>
</classpath>
</taskdef>

as soon as I did that, I'm getting "could not create task or type of type:foreach. Ant could not find the task or a class this task relies upon"

please help. thanks.

[Roseanne Zhang]

Why don't you just copy ant-contrib.jar to your ant*/lib directory, save your all the trouble and time to solve more important problems? That is also the exact place it is supposed to be.

Don't trouble troubles until trouble troubles you.
[ April 26, 2005: Message edited by: Roseanne Zhang ]

[Ilja Preuss]

Seems to me like it should work.

Run Ant using the -verbose option and see wether it tells you anything usefull about where it tries to find the jar file. Perhaps you have a typo somewhere...