From 6e51f1ff97e3aed10fb5b3759c3c136b397a0ad8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Rennie
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 15:57:16 -0500
Subject: Bug 414053 - The API generation task should always overwrite

Change-Id: I67369f2ed4d859128c65a25660fc318d555a23bb
---
 .../eclipse/pde/api/tools/internal/tasks/ApiFileGenerationTask.java  | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/apitools/org.eclipse.pde.api.tools/src_ant/org/eclipse/pde/api/tools/internal/tasks/ApiFileGenerationTask.java b/apitools/org.eclipse.pde.api.tools/src_ant/org/eclipse/pde/api/tools/internal/tasks/ApiFileGenerationTask.java
index 0f6a968809..6763cb4ab6 100644
--- a/apitools/org.eclipse.pde.api.tools/src_ant/org/eclipse/pde/api/tools/internal/tasks/ApiFileGenerationTask.java
+++ b/apitools/org.eclipse.pde.api.tools/src_ant/org/eclipse/pde/api/tools/internal/tasks/ApiFileGenerationTask.java
@@ -281,8 +281,9 @@ public class ApiFileGenerationTask extends Task {
 		}
 		File apiDescriptionFile = new File(targetProjectFolder, IApiCoreConstants.API_DESCRIPTION_XML_NAME);
 		if (apiDescriptionFile.exists()) {
-			System.out.println("API description file already exists: " + apiDescriptionFile.toString()); //$NON-NLS-1$
-			return;
+			//get rid of the existing one
+			//see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=414053
+			apiDescriptionFile.delete();
 		}
 		File[] allFiles = null;
 		Map manifestMap = null;
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