Check out the optional <depend> task.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garcia, Gilles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2001 4:39 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: build order
>
>
>
> 1) When Ant is run with ** to traverse a complete tree and if we assume
> that a.class depends on b.class which in turn depends on c.class:
>
> (a.class) <------- (b.class) <------- (c.class)
>
> what happens if I run Ant after modifying c.class ?
>
> 2) javac itself, I understand, does not recompile b.class if I run
>
> javac -depend a.class
> is this correct ?
>
> 3) Is it Ant which make the time stamp comparison between .java
> sources and
> their corresponding .class files in order to determine what to pass javac
> for
> re-compilation, or is it javac internally which does that?
>
> Thank you in advance for your informative help
>
> G. Garcia
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