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Apologies.

BUILD FAILED
 "Directory creation was not successful for an unknown reason"
Mkdir was failing not because the directory existed, but because it was 
locked by StarTeam.
The simplest things take the longest to find. :~D

The Mkdir page in the manual should perhaps mention that it does not 
fail if existing?


Coral Featherstone wrote:

>Hi All,
>I've combed the archives but I just can't seem to find a solution.
>
>I need to create directories if they don't exist.
>Mkdir fails if the directory does exists. Not calling mkdir makes several
>other tasl fail (jar, ear etc)
>
>I've tried
>   <target name="checkdir.bck">
>  	<available file="${BACKUP_DEST}" property="checkdir.bck.isElusive"/>
>  </target>
>  
>  <target name="mkdir.bck" depends="checkdir.bck"
>unless="checkdir.bck.isElusive">
>   	<mkdir dir="${BACKUP_DEST}"/>
>  </target>
>
>But obviously checkdir.bck.isElusive never gets set
>------------------
>Ive tried
> <target name="checkdir.webdoc">
>   	 <dirset dir="${BASE_DIRECTORY}${WEBDOC_DESTINATION}"
>id="emptyfileset"/>
>      	<pathconvert pathsep="${path.separator}" dirsep="${file.separator}"
>property="checkdir.webdoc.isElusive" refid="emptyfileset"/>
>      <condition >
>          <equals arg1="${emptyfileset}" arg2=""/>
>      </condition>
>  </target>
>  
>  <target name="mkdir.webdoc" depends="checkdir.webdoc"
>if="checkdir.webdoc.isElusive">
>   	<mkdir dir="${BASE_DIRECTORY}${WEBDOC_DESTINATION}"/>
>  </target>
>
>This works for files not directories and pathconvert fails when the
>directory is missing.
>
>
><touch> doesn't work because sometimes there is more that one directory in
>the hierarchy that is missing
>
>Am I missing something obvious???
>
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