Never mind, I've worked around this by having "expand-properties" do an <antcall> to another intermediate <target> that finishes up.
John Volkar -----Original Message----- From: John Volkar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 7:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Newbie help <property> Okay, once more... It seems that properties are only inheritable "downwards" thru a series of <antcall>'s. I can see why this is (you would not want child targets messing up parent target property settings. However, I have a situation where I want a child <target> to set properties that I want to use in the parent <target>. (see "expand-properties" in the attached sample) How could I allow a child target to set a property that would then be visible to a calling target? John Volkar The following is a shortened part of a master build script that will eventualy have 40-50 separate steps in it's "build-sequence". The default <target> for the project is specified as "quicktest". The following is the series of calls made for "someproject"... My problem is in expand-properties, it fabricates several properties from one base propery and I do not want to repeat that expansion logic everywhere, so my original intent was to use <target name="expand-properties"> as a sort-of subroutine. quicktest build-sequence prepare-environment build-someproject build-targets-quicktest expand-properties cleanup-project vssget-project antbuild-project cleanup-project <target name="quicktest"> <property name="build-targets" value="build-targets-quicktest"/> <antcall target="build-sequence"/> </target> <target name="build-sequence"> <antcall target="prepare-environment"/> <parallel> <antcall target="build-somehugeproject"/> <sequential> <antcall target="build-someproject"/> <antcall target="build-someotherproject"/> </sequential> </parallel> </target> <target name="build-somehugeproject"> <property name="project-name" value="core\somehugeproject"/> <antcall target="${build-targets}"/> </target> <target name="build-someproject"> <property name="project-name" value="utilities\someproject"/> <antcall target="${build-targets}"/> </target> <target name="build-someotherproject"> <property name="project-name" value="utilities\someotherproject"/> <antcall target="${build-targets}"/> </target> <target name="build-targets-quicktest"> <antcall target="expand-properties"/> <antcall target="cleanup-project"/> <antcall target="vssget-project"/> <antcall target="antbuild-project"/> <antcall target="cleanup-project"/> </target> <target name="expand-properties"> <property name="project-path" value="${basedir}\${project-name}"/> <property name="project-path-src" value="${project-path}src\"/> <property name="project-path-javadoc" value="${project-path}javadoc\"/> </target> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
