title: unable to run Ant on my mac Os X?
body: <p>This is what I get after I installed Ant:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ant -v
  Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.4 compiled on April 29 2014
  Trying the default build file: build.xml
  Buildfile: build.xml does not exist!
  Build failed
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Debug option: (not clear to me)</p>
  
  <pre><code>ant --execdebug
  exec "/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_40.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/bin/java" -classpath "/Users/sridhar/software_downloads/apache-ant-1.9.4/lib/ant-launcher.jar" -Dant.home="/Users/sridhar/software_downloads/apache-ant-1.9.4" -Dant.library.dir="/Users/sridhar/software_downloads/apache-ant-1.9.4/lib" org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher -cp ""
  Buildfile: build.xml does not exist!
  Build failed
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have set the environment variable correctly:</p>
  
  <pre><code>echo $ANT_HOME 
  /Users/software_downloads/apache-ant-1.9.4
  echo $JAVA_HOME 
  /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_40.jdk/Contents/Home
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I followed this <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2336299/what-is-wrong-with-my-ant-configuration">post:</a></p>
  
  <pre><code>sudo mkdir /usr/lib/java-1.7.0 /usr/share/java-1.7.0
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I still get same error</p>
  
  <p>I am using Mac OS X mavericks and Jdk1.7</p>