Sorry, the nested target element is available with Ant 1.6.3. -----Original Message----- From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 10:41 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: Ant dependencies task
Hi Brian, That didn't seem to work... I get: BUILD FAILED The <antcall> type doesn't support the nested "target" element. Using Ant 1.6.1 Frank Dick, Brian E. wrote: > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
