I'm fighting a problem with ant compiling an application I adopted
from a previous developer. The odd thing is the exact same setup
works fine on windows and on Suse 9.2 but on Red Hat 9.0 I get the
error shown in my subject. The script is very simple:

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 <property name="project.name" value="MyProject"/>
 <property name="project.name.short" value="MyProject"/>
 <property name="project.jar.file" value="build/myproject.jar"/>

 <property name="project.version.file" location="."
value="version.properties"/>

 <target name="prepare-version">
   <tstamp>
     <format property="build.date" pattern="MMM dd yyyy HH:mm:ss"/>
   </tstamp>

   <propertyfile file="${project.version.file}" comment="The build
number is incremented by Ant.">
     <entry  key="build.version.major" type="int" default="1"/>
     <entry  key="build.version.minor" type="int" default="22"/>
     <entry  key="build.number" type="int" default="0" operation="+"/>
     <entry  key="build.date" type="date" value="now" pattern="MMM dd
yyyy HH:mm:ss"/>
   </propertyfile>

   <property file="${project.version.file}"/>

   <echo file="${project.src.folder}/myproject/Version.java">package
myproject;
                            ~~~~
                            ~~~~

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The above script fails on line 12:

  <propertyfile file="${project.version.file}" comment="The build
number is incremented by Ant.">

The file refered to in ${project.version.file} is "version.properties"
and
it is in the same directory as the build and project xml files. It's
permissions are set world rwx. What heck is causing this? I've played
with
ANT_HOME, the CLASSPATH, and I've run out of ideas.

Anyone have a guess??? Any help much appreciated...

James Kimble