Re: Is there an option for auto-create output dirs when compiling with javac?

"Catherina Svensson" <gremlin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> When I perform a compiling operation like:
>
> javac -d build\WEB-INF\cl***** my.java
>
> and the directory build\WEB-INF\cl***** does NOT exist then the javac 
> command fails.
>
> Is there really no auto-create-dir-when-necessary option for javac ?
>
> Cat

Not in the sense that you mean. The location pointed to by the -d option 
must exist. Bear in mind that javac will certainly create directories as 
required *in* the location you specify...for example:

javac -d targetdir dirA\dirB\*.java

will create

dirA\dirB\*.class

inside "targetDir".

Note that the explanation of the -d option in the javac do***entation does

say that the destination directory will *not* be created.

AHS