I am new to the list, so please pardon me if this question has been
asked before...
We have moved from Make to Ant, but there are some lingering issues
that I need to try to resolve. The most important is, how does file
dependency work?
Take this Makefile for example:
.PHONY: mytarget
CP_XERCES=/opt/ApacheGroup/xerces-1.2.3/xerces.jar
mytarget: ../rel/etc/product.conf
../rel/etc/product.conf: Makefile etc/product.conf
perl -p -e 's(_CP_XERCES_)(${CP_XERCES});' etc/product.conf > $@
So, when run, if Makefile OR etc/product.conf is newer than
../rel/etc/product.conf, then the Perl command will be run. If not,
nothing happens.
The only way I see to do this in Ant would be to create a new variable
and some how set it to true or false depending on the file age
compared to its source. But, the only thing I have found based on
modification times is the "copy" task.
Any assistance is appreciated!
Thanks,
Jason
