Apologies for a second post in two days!
Is it possible to set properties on a per user basis and
per project basis?
I've now got ant up and running quite nicely, and have
written my first build file (which took me about 1/5 the time it took
me to get my first Makefile written, which is I think a positive
thing!).
I want to write a buildfile which is nice and generic, so
at the beginning I have set up the following...
<!-- Where to find the route directory of the source hierarchy -->
<property name="src" value="../../../.."/>
<!-- Where should the class files that are produced by put -->
<property name="classes" value="${src}"/>
<!-- Where should the distributable jar files be generated -->
<property name="dist" value="${src}"/>
<!-- Where are the additional jar files required for the compilation -->
<property name="ext" value="${classes}/ext"/>
<!-- Compile with debug on or not -->
<property name="debug" value="off"/>
This is fine, and will work as a build for my
distributable. The problem is that it does not really suit my file
system. So I have over-ridden these properties on the command
line. Currently I am launching ant with....
ant -emacs -Dbuild.compiler=jikes -Dbuild.compiler.emacs=true
-Dclasses=~/include/java -Dext=~/include/ext -Ddist=~/scratch
which is a bit of a mouthful, and I can tell that its only
going to get longer.
The approach that I have taken to get around this is to
stick this...
<!--
In this section I am defining the local variables that I use to
customise the build process for my own nefarious ends.
Local Variables: ***
compile-command: ("ant -emacs \
-Dbuild.compiler=jikes \
-Dbuild.compiler.emacs=true \
-Dclasses=~/include/java \
-Dext=~/include/ext \
-Ddist=~/scratch" ) ***
End: ***
-->
at the bottom of my file, which works nicely when
launching the build from within emacs. But I don't really want this to
go in the buildfile I ship with my distributable.
So what I would like is the ability to specify properties
in some file on a per project basis, where I can stick all of this
stuff. Preferably I would like to be able to still override these
properties with command line parameters (so I can switch between
jikes, and javac easily for instance).
Is it possible to do this at the moment?
Phil
