I'm having a recurring problem which I haven't been able to solve
in Ant. As an example, say I have a file manifest which contains
all the files I expect to have in my distribution. I copy that to a
staging directory with copy and fileset:
<copy todir = "${stage.dir}">
<fileset dir = "${build.dir}" includesfile = "${file.lst}"/>
</copy>
The problem is that if there are files in ${file.lst} that are missing
(perhaps never built), fileset throws them out and copy never knows
anything about them. It seems like <filelist> would solve that
problem, because it would pass all the file names to <copy>, and then
<copy> would complain about the missing ones. But <copy> won't accept
a filelist. I really need the task to fail if any file in ${file.lst}
is not found in ${build.dir}.
Is there a cookbook solution to this problem?
-- Steve __
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