Ant is not able to delete some files on windows

Question

I have an ant build that makes directories, calls javac and all the regular stuff. The issue I am having is that when I try to do a clean (delete all the stuff that was generate

Answer 1

Ant versions before 1.8.0 have a bug which leads to random errors during delete operation. Try using Ant 1.8.0 or newer.

You can see the bug details here https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45960