--- Tarun Garg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a big project with many subprojects in it.
> I've written a build.xml for each subproject and one build.xml for
> the main
> project.
> A lot of these subprojects are dependent on each other.
> Lets say I have subprojects A,B,C,D,E and F.
> A is dependent on B and C.
> B is dependent on D.
> C is dependent on D and E.
> D is dependent on E.
> F is dependent on E.
>
> Now I want that the individual build.xml files for each subproject
> should
> completely build that subproject.
> For that I've used <Ant> task.
> So the compilation target of each build.xml depends on a target which
> calls
> ant for all the other subprojects that need be there.
> Now when I am writing the build.xml for the main project, I want to
> build
> all the subprojects.
> Here again I am using the <Ant> task.
>
> The problem here is that ant calls the target again and again for a
> subproject every time it comes in the dependency of another
> subproject. This
> increases the build time considerably even when the subprojects are
> already
> uptodate.
> I tried to solve this problem by setting a property in every
> subproject and
> checking it whenever it is called again. But I have now discovered
> that the
> property set during one ant call does not carry forward to the other
> one.
> How can I solve this problem ?
>
>
>
So are you saying that something like
<project name="main" basedir=".">
<target name="A" depends="B,C">
<ant antfile="dirA/build.xml" dir="dirA"/>
</target>
<target name="B" depends="D">
<ant antfile="dirB/build.xml" dir="dirB"/>
</target>
<target name="C" depends="D,E">
<ant antfile="dirC/build.xml" dir="dirC"/>
</target>
<target name="D" depends="E">
<ant antfile="dirD/build.xml" dir="dirD"/>
</target>
<target name="E">
<ant antfile="dirE/build.xml" dir="dirE"/>
</target>
<target name="F" depends="E">
<ant antfile="dirF/build.xml" dir="dirF"/>
</target>
</project>
wouldn't work for you?
-- Don
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