Bug 46783

Summary:	erroronmissingdir not supported by javac task
Product:	Ant	Reporter:	Tim Dean <TimothyMDean>
Component:	Core tasks	Assignee:	Ant Notifications List <notifications>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	lbreisacher
Priority:	P2
Version:	1.7.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Macintosh
OS:	Mac OS X 10.4

Description Tim Dean 2009-03-01 19:54:27 UTC

According to the Ant 1.7.1 documentation, the javac task "forms an implicit FileSet and supports all attributes of <fileset> (dir becomes srcdir) as well as the nested <include>, <exclude> and <patternset> elements."

The FileSet element has added the erroronmissingdir attribute in Ant 1.7.1, but it does not appear to be supported by the javac task. I believe this is a bug, and that <javac> should support this new attribute. At the very least, the current behavior does not match the documentation.

Comment 1 Stefan Bodewig 2009-05-07 01:54:23 UTC

svn revision 772556 fixes the manual

I haven't made up my mind on whether <javac> should support erroronmissingdir at all.

Comment 2 Andy 2009-07-23 12:53:51 UTC

Ant Documentation 1.7.1:

<zipfileset> supports all attributes of <fileset> in addition to those listed below.

Unfortunately, <zipfileset> doesn't support erroronmissingdir

Comment 3 Stefan Bodewig 2009-07-30 07:01:20 UTC

ZipFileSet does support erroronmissingdir (it comes in inherited from AbstractFileSet).

Comment 4 Lee Breisacher 2011-01-12 19:57:20 UTC

If javac is not going to support erroronmissingdir, then how *does* one tell javac to ignore a directory? The use case I've got is this: I have several components to compile, so I wrote a macrodef to do the compile. Some of the components have more than one src directory (e.g. src, gen/src), but others do not (just src, no gen/src). I want to put both src and gen/src on the javac srcdir and have it simply ignore a missing directory. I've tried various combinations of <src> and srcdir and <fileset> to no avail.