diff --git a/sdk/nbproject/build-impl.xml b/sdk/nbproject/build-impl.xml
index 01fefe84f..cde5d02a8 100644
--- a/sdk/nbproject/build-impl.xml
+++ b/sdk/nbproject/build-impl.xml
@@ -38,11 +38,10 @@
             </not>
         </condition>
     </fail>
-    <ant antfile="nbproject/platform.xml"/>
-    <fail message="Cannot find NetBeans build harness. ${line.separator}Check that nbplatform.${nbplatform.active}.netbeans.dest.dir and nbplatform.${nbplatform.active}.harness.dir are defined. ${line.separator}On a developer machine these are normally defined in ${user.properties.file}=${netbeans.user}/build.properties ${line.separator}but for automated builds you should pass these properties to Ant explicitly. ${line.separator}You may instead download the harness and platform: -Dbootstrap.url=.../tasks.jar -Dautoupdate.catalog.url=.../updates.xml">
+    <fail message="Cannot find NetBeans build harness. ${line.separator}Check that nbplatform.${nbplatform.active}.netbeans.dest.dir and nbplatform.${nbplatform.active}.harness.dir are defined. ${line.separator}On a developer machine these are normally defined in ${user.properties.file}=${netbeans.user}/build.properties ${line.separator}but for automated builds you should pass these properties to Ant explicitly.">
         <condition>
             <not>
-                <available file="${harness.dir}/suite.xml"/>
+                <available type="dir" file="${harness.dir}"/>
             </not>
         </condition>
     </fail>