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<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
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<title>Platform Issues</title>
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<h1>Platform Issues</h1>
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<h2>Unix</h2>
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<ul>
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<li> You should use a GNU version of <tt>tar</tt> to untar the ant source tree,
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if you have downloaded this as a tar file.
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</li>
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<li> Ant does not preserve file permissions when a file is copied, moved or
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archived. Use <tt><chmod></tt> to set permissions, and when creating a
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tar archive, use the <tt>mode</tt> attribute of <tt><tarfileset></tt>
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to set the permissions in the tar file.
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</li>
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<li> Ant is not symbolic link aware in moves, deletes and when recursing down a tree
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of directories to build up a list of files. Unexpected things can happen.
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</ul>
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<h2>Microsoft Windows</h2>
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Windows 9x (win95, win98, win98SE and winME) has a batch file system which
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does not work fully with long file names, so we recommend that ant and the JDK
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are installed into directories without spaces, and with 8.3 filenames.
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The Perl and Python launcher scripts do not suffer from this limitation.
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<p>
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All versions of windows are usually case insensitive, although mounted
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file systems (Unix drives, Clearcase views) can be case sensitive underneath,
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confusing patternsets.
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<p>
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Ant can often not delete a directory which is open in an Explorer window.
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There is nothing we can do about this short of spawning a program to kill
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the shell before deleting directories.
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<h2>Apple MacOS X</h2>
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MacOS X is the first of the Apple platforms that Ant supports completely;
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it is treated like any other Unix.
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<h2>Novell Netware</h2>
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<h2>Other platforms</h2>
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Support for other platforms is not guaranteed to be complete, as certain
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techniques to hide platform details from build files need to be written and
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tested on every particular platform. Contributions in this area are welcome.
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