Hi Steve, Thanks for the suggestion; however, the "src" attribute is a path-like structure, and as such you cannot use include or exclude elements (hence trying to use the filesets in the first example).
It would seem that the javac task is taking directories specified by the "src" attribute, and then scanning beneath these for the Java files to compile. However, there does not appear to be a way to specify a fileset /per src directory/, as the only place it is legitimate to include/exclude is as a direct child of the javac task itself (which makes sense as it's an implicit fileset) -- unfortunately though, by this time, it is impossible to write an include/exclude as there is no way to distinguish which source files need to have the rule applied! I agree this is not a nice situation (it's to do with generated source files)... I can achieve what I need by staging the source files into a temporary directory, and then compiling; I was simply trying to avoid that. However, I don't agree that it is out of the hands of ANT. I can actually achieve what I am trying to do by using the command line - by explicitly listing each source file when calling javac: java root_a/One.java root_b/Two.java root_b/Three.java javac handles this OK (ie. it is not privy to root_a/Two.java, so does not attempt to compile it). Is the javac task not simply mimicking this behaviour? In which case, I should be able to emulate this within a target...? Regards, Joe -----Original Message----- From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 April 2006 10:31 To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: Javac: multiple source roots & filesets Have you tried multiple <src> attributes? <javac destdir="classes"> <src dir="root_a"> <include name="**/*.java"/> <exclude name="package/Two.java"/> </src> <src dir="root_b"> <include name="**/*.java"/> </src> </javac> What you are trying to do is pretty brittle. Even if you exclude something, the compiler itself may take a liking to the one in the same directory that other classes are in. There is no way to guarantee that root_a/package/One.java won't build against Two.java in the same dir. This is out of Ant's hands. -steve --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
