The tasks loaded by ant use a different mechanism than
those used by <typedef> etal and thus by the antlib mechanism.
To allow optional tasks in an antlib one does:
<taskdef name="x" classname="y" onerror="ignore"/>
Peter
Dominique Devienne wrote:
>When I setup the performance testing environment for sync,
>I dropped my custom Antlib jar into a freshly made Ant CVS
>HEAD distrib. I ran my build file, which referenced my old
>lsync task using the antlib: magic XML namespace, and I was
>surprised to get an error about a task I wasn't even using!
>
>I always thought that tasks whose dependents cannot be found
>are simply ignored, with just a warning at verbose level.
>Otherwise I'd get such errors left and right for the many
>optional tasks I don't have the JARs for.
>
>So what's different in this case? BTW, I checked, and also
>got an error if I used <taskdef resource=""> instead of an
>XML NS, and I checked it's the same for CVS HEAD and 1.6.2.
>
>Can someone please explain what's going on? Thanks, --DD
>
>P:\com_lgc\cycle9>P:\oss\org_apache\ant\apache-ant-1.7alpha\bin\ant -f
>sync.xml
>Buildfile: sync.xml
>
>sb-sync:
> [mkdir] Created dir: P:\com_lgc\cycle9\build\sb-sync
> [sync] Copying 5 files to P:\com_lgc\cycle9\build\sb-sync
>
>dd-sync:
> [mkdir] Created dir: P:\com_lgc\cycle9\build\dd-sync
>
>BUILD FAILED
>P:\com_lgc\cycle9\sync.xml:19: The following error occurred while
>executing this line:
>jar:file:/P:/oss/org_apache/ant/apache-ant-1.7alpha/lib/com_lgc_buildmag
>ic.jar!/com/lgc/buildmagic/antlib.xm
>l:5: taskdef A class needed by class com.lgc.buildmagic.JUnitx cannot be
>found: junit/framework/Test
>
>Total time: 1 second
>P:\com_lgc\cycle9>
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