Hello Kenneth, look at the for and for-each constructs of ant-contrib.
:http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/ Cheers, Antoine Kenneth Rose wrote: >Hi all, > >In my build environment, I have a directory containing a bunch of patches. >I would like ant to apply these patches to pristine sources. I have tried >something similar to: > > <patch dir="pristine"> > <fileset dir="patches"> > <include name="**"/> > <type type="file"/> > </fileset> > </patch> > >but I get the error: > >The <patch> type doesn't support the nested "fileset" element. > >Nuts. Thinking that the patch command on Unix is a filter, I figured that >I could <concat> all of the patches in a <filterchain> and send the output >to <patch>. Unfortunately, <patch> does not seem to be a <filterreader>. > >I *could* manually specify the patches or I could just <concat> to a ><tempfile>, but both of those solutions are not ideal. Does anyone know a >way of making <patch> work with a group of patches? > >Thanks. > >/<en > >P.S. - Patches should be applied in alphabetical order based on their >filename. So if I have: > >patches/a_nice_patch.diff >patches/zzz_last_one.diff > >then a_nice_patch.diff is applied before zzz_last_one.diff. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
