Build Failed: build.xml seems to have errors!

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Hi,

Just tried to build the JForum from source and I get this message:

D:\temp92\jforum>ant createZip
Buildfile: build.xml

compile:

createClassJar:
    [mkdir] Created dir: D:\temp92\jforum\build
    [mkdir] Created dir: D:\temp92\jforum\build\WEB-INF\lib
      [jar] Building jar: D:\temp92\jforum\build\WEB-INF\lib\JForum-2.1.jar

createZip:
    [mkdir] Created dir: D:\temp92\jforum\dist

BUILD FAILED
D:\temp92\jforum\build.xml:69: Warning: Could not find file D:\temp92\jforum\build\WEB-INF\lib\*.jar to copy.

Total time: 3 seconds

It seems to me that in line 69 you try to copy the JForumxxx.jar to WEB-INF/lib, and only after, package the entire thing.
IMHO this is wrong, cause in the next build call, that JAR will be used in the classpath (and if there were changes made to the sourcecode - with errors, they remain undetected).
IMHO, the compiled JForumxxx.jar should be used only in the ZIP.

Thanks in advance,

Jake Robwood.
[originally posted on jforum.net by Anonymous]

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Can you fix the build.xml and put it here please? Will save me a lot of time testing it
Thanks.

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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Rafael Steil wrote:Can you fix the build.xml and put it here please? Will save me a lot of time testing it

IMHO the entire build process should be reworked, but for that more work would be required. I'll try that later, but for now just to fix it and to make the build still work with minimal changes, the following is required:
Instead of:

<copy file="${build}/WEB-INF/lib/*.jar" todir="${project.libs}"/>

Use this:

<copy file="${build}/WEB-INF/lib/${projectname}-${version}.jar" todir="${project.libs}"/>

This way, the build process (even if it's not nice), will work and not deliver "build failed"

Jake Robwood.
[originally posted on jforum.net by Anonymous]