taking this step by step:
1. you create your build file as suggested by Isaac
<jar
jarfile="NameofJartoCreate.jar"
basedir="wheretojarfrom_is_a_directory_that_holds_NO_Manifest.mf_in_either_s
ubdir"
manifest="yourManuallyEdited.mf"
/>
2. you manually edit your own Manifest file, but you don't put it in the
basedir somewhere
_manually_ means you edit yourself the file to hold the line:
Class-Path: struts.jar
3. instead you put it and call it as denoted in the manifest attribute of
the jar task
said all that I do understand what you're getting at, I think...
the point is that you probably already have some ${cp} property you're using
in some <target name="testrun" />
and you (well, we all, I guess) hate the idea that you manually have to sync
additional needed jars in both the build.xml and the infamous
yourManuallyEdited.mf
(by the way: the same holds for the Main-Class manifest entry that doubles
to the java classname="Main-Class" attribute, this for the java -jar
addicts)
would be interesting to understand how the jar task now generates it's own
Manifest.mf... and have a look into how that could be extended to maybe
slide in a line or 2? (maybe it's not even the jar task doing it but the
underlaying JDK utility?)... that, or a manifest-building task preceeding
the jar task?
-marc=
> -----Original Message-----
> From: G.L. Grobe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: donderdag 12 april 2001 0:59
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: adding class-path to manifest
>
>
> So if NameofJartoCreate.jar is the jar i'm creating and it
> depends on an
> external jar called struts.jar, where is the file struts.jar
> or it's path to
> struts.jar being added? All I can see from here is that I'd know what
> manifest to use.
>
> <jar
> jarfile="NameofJartoCreate.jar"
> basedir="wheretojarfrom"
> manifest="nameofManifestfile"
> />
>
> Thnxs for replying
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Isaac Sparrow (Staff Engineer)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 5:53 PM
> Subject: Re: adding class-path to manifest
>
>
> > "G.L. Grobe" wrote:
> > >
> > > Reposting for some help here.
> > >
> > > How do you tell Ant to add an external jar file to the
> MANIFEST.MF that
> > > my-ejb.jar file depends on? If I manually add the
> MANIFEST.MF, it get's
> > > ignored and Ant creates an empty one.
> > >
> > > I need this in the file (I think) as my ejb's are not finding the
> correct
> > > paths to this jar.
> > >
> > > Class-Path: ../struts.jar
> > >
> > > Any help much appreciated.
> >
> > I have ant add a manifest I have created like this:
> >
> > <jar
> > jarfile="NameofJartoCreate.jar"
> > basedir="wheretojarfrom"
> > manifest="nameofManifestfile"
> > />
> >
> >
> > Hope this helps!
> >
> > --
> > --Isaac Sparrow
> > --------------------------
> > Staff Engineer
> > VisiComp, Inc.
> >
> > http://www.visicomp.com
> >
>
