Robert,
I think this should be possible with current Ant by careful passing of
properties.
Firstly, I haven't tried any of what I am about to suggest so feel free to
flame me if it falls over horribly.
Try this in build_tools.xml
<target name="build-toolboxes">
<antcall target="build-a-toolbox">
<param name="toolbox.dir" value="toolbox1"/>
</antcall>
<antcall target="build-a-toolbox">
<param name="toolbox.dir" value="toolbox2"/>
</antcall>
<antcall target="build-a-toolbox">
<param name="toolbox.dir" value="toolbox2"/>
</antcall>
</target>
<target name="build-a-toolbox">
<ant antfile="build_toolbox" dir="${toolbox.dir}"/>
</target>
You'll need to move the one of the toolbox build files up a level and call
it build_toolbox1.xml. If everything is a relative path, it should work for
all the toolboxes.
Let us know how it goes.
Conor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 3:31 AM
Subject: help for buildfile
> Hi
>
> I am a new user and if anybody could give me some help/advice I would be
> very gratefull.
>
> I am trying to make build file(s) for a project. The structure of the
> project is below:
>
> -build.xml
> -src
> -build_core.xml
> -classes
> -help
> -toolboxes
> -build_tools.xml
> -toolbox1
> -build_toolbox1.xml
> -src
> -classes
> -help
> -toolbox2
> -build_toolbox2.xml
> -src
> -classes
> -help
> -toolbox3
> -toolbox3.1
> -build_toolbox3_1.xml
> -src
> -classes
> -help
> -toolbox3.2
> -build_toolbox3_2.xml
> -src
> -classes
> -help
>
> I have a build.xml file in the root directory of the project, build_tools
in
> the toolboxes directory, I also have a seperate buildfile for each of the
> toolboxes and a build_core.xml file which build the main part of the
> project. build.xml calls the build_core.xml the calls the build_tools.xml
> (this then calls the numberous buildfiles to compile the toolboxes). The
> problem I am having is that when a new toolbox is created, a new
buildfile
> has to be written. What I am trying to do is have a global script for the
> toolboxes that will compile all the toolboxes and any new ones (it will
> recurse down the tree for any .java files, compile then to the
appropriate
> classes directory. This would be the same as 'javac -d .../classes
*.java).
> I have tried this but failed. Is this possible with ant? If not then does
> anybody know a build tool that would solve this task?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Rob
>
>
