Diane,
Just to be clear for Holger, the depend task is not part of ant 1.2. It is
only available with ant 1.3. This means Holger will need to build from
either CVS or use a nightly build.
I'm still looking for feedback on <depend>, BTW.
Conor
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diane Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, 12 January 2001 4:28
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Jikes & <depend> task
>
>
> At 04:31 11/1/01 +0100, Holger Rauch wrote:
> > I've been trying to use the <depend> task in my own ant build file and
> > have a few questions, since I got an error message telling me that I
> > have to specify the task in a <taskdef> tag
>
> Specify:
> <taskdef name="depend"
>
> classname="org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.depend.Depend"/>
>
> > When working with dependencies, I seem to be faced with two
> > alternatives:
> > using the <depend> task or using jikes? Which does a better job?
>
> I use the <depend> task, because I allow for switching between building
> with either the VCafe25 compiler ('sj') or 'jikes', depending on what
> build.compiler has been set to.
>
> Diane
>
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