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Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 09:38:50 +1000
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From: Peter Donald <donaldp@apache.org>
Subject: Re: does depend work and if how?
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At 01:34  15/5/01 -0400, Justinus Menzel wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm using Ant 1.3 (on RHLinux 6.1, JDK 1.3) and basically everything works
>fine exept the
>depend task. It simply doesn't do anything.
>To be precise it gives a list of scanned class files in -debug mode and
>says in general how long the operation takes.
>But it doesn't remove any of the class files even if the dependencies are
>clearly violated (I checked the classfiles with a hex editor, and there are
>references to other classes, that were updated)
>Does anyone have any idea what could be the problem?

It would help us if you gave xml for task and relevent properties. (And
possibly a relevent snippet from debug/verbose output).

Cheers,

Pete

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