[Solved] Why cant ant find the ant-contrib library?

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KWhat · Post by **KWhat** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 6:09 pm

Can someone explain why ant on gentoo cannot find the ant-contrib library? I have the lib installed via portage and i have a static copy that shipped with jquery-ui. The build xml came directly from jquery-ui and already includes the correct taskdef:

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	<taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties">
		<classpath>
			<pathelement location="build/ant-contrib-0.6.jar"/>
		</classpath>
	</taskdef>

I have tired pointing it to the absolute path of the included ant-contrib.jar as well as /usr/share/ant-contrib/lib/ant-contrib.jar I have tired disabling class paths, setting them to the location of the jar, tried disabling user libs. STILL: "failed to create task or type for" on the For loop task. This is really freaking annoying and ONLY happens on Gentoo.

sera · Post by **sera** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:27 am

Use resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml" instead.

net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties is the pre ant-1.6 stuff.
There is a for task in there as well but its definition is commented out.

KWhat · Post by **KWhat** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 10:09 pm

Totally Worked, Thanks!