POI cannot be build with ant 1.6alpha. I have traced this failure to a change in the behavior of the basename task. This patch changes the usage of basename to work with the new task. Building with built.bat still works as well. Hopefully this will make the daily gumps more useful.
Created attachment 4183 [details] patch basename usage in build.xtarget
Not that I understand what I am doing here, but I ran the mandatory "build clean", "build test" cycle with ant 1.5beta2 to ensure backward compatibility. It worked, so I committed the patch. I did not try ant 1.6whatever. Thanks Paul!