Besides macrodef, you need to get familiar with import too.
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 10:52 AM
To: Ant Users List
Subject: Re: Ant dependencies task
Hi again,
This did the trick, almost... there was one other piece to the puzzle...
I had to add inheritRefs="true" to all the targets I antcall'd. So, my
main build target looks like:
<target name="build">
<get_dependencies />
<antcall target="compile" inheritRefs="true" />
<antcall target="make_javadocs" inheritRefs="true" />
<antcall target="checkstyle" inheritRefs="true" />
</target>
...and the get_dependencies is now:
<macrodef name="get_dependencies">
<sequential>
<typedef classpath="${basedir}/ant-dependencies.jar"
resource="dependencies.properties" />
<dependencies pathId="compiletime_classpath" verbose="true">
<dependency group="servletapi" version="2.3" />
<dependency group="checkstyle" version="3.4" />
<dependency group="antlr" version="2.7.5" />
<dependency group="regexp" version="1.3" />
</dependencies>
</sequential>
</macrodef>
That works perfectly. Thanks for the suggestion Brian, I appreciate
very much, especially since I had never used macrodef before and I can't
imagine I would have thought of it on my own :)
Frank
Dick, Brian E. wrote:
> Another thing that may work is converting your get_dependencies target
> to a macrodef.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dick, Brian E.
> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 3:19 PM
> To: Ant Users List
> Subject: RE: Ant dependencies task
>
>
> You can recode
>
> <target name="build"
> depends="get_dependencies,compile,make_javadocs,checkstyle,cleanup" />
>
> as
>
> <target name="build">
> <antcall>
> <target name="get_dependencies"/>
> <target name="compile"/>
> <target name="make_javadocs"/>
> <target name="checkstyle"/>
> <target name="cleanup"/>
> </antcall>
> </target>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 2:54 PM
> To: user@ant.apache.org
> Subject: Ant dependencies task
>
>
> Does anyone have any experience with this add-on?
>
> http://www.httpunit.org/doc/dependencies.html
>
> It works great for me, but one problem I have is that my build scripts
> usually have a single "build" target with a bunch of antcalls to other
> targets in it. I have the following target which is executed first:
>
> <target name="get_dependencies">
> <typedef classpath="${basedir}/ant-dependencies.jar"
> resource="dependencies.properties" />
> <dependencies pathId="compiletime_classpath" verbose="true">
> <dependency group="servletapi" version="2.3" />
> <dependency group="checkstyle" version="3.4" />
> <dependency group="antlr" version="2.7.5" />
> <dependency group="regexp" version="1.3" />
> </dependencies>
> </target>
>
> However, the problem I'm encountering is that the
compiletime_classpath
> property is not available outside this target. HOWEVER, if instead of
a
> series of antcalls I instead have my build target like so:
>
> <target name="build"
> depends="get_dependencies,compile,make_javadocs,checkstyle,cleanup" />
>
> Then it works, the property is available to all the other targets. I
> have
> also tried having all the antcalls EXCEPT the one to get_dependencies
> and
> instead made that a depends entry for the build target, but that
didn't
> work either.
>
> Anyone have any ideas? There is obviously some subtle thing going on
> with
> properties and scoping or some such, but I don't know what it is.
FYI,
> the reason I'd prefer to do the antcalls is that I have like 15
targets
> that get called, and having a big comma-sepated lists in the depends
> attribute is kind of unwieldly. Thanks!
>
--
Frank W. Zammetti
Founder and Chief Software Architect
Omnytex Technologies
http://www.omnytex.com
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