Okay, i one more about this topic. The solution you gave me worked for most of my compiles. but I have two in particular that always seem to get compiled. This time I am only including the file that I want to compile.
Does anyone know why these gets compiled everytime? I should say that these files are modifications of files that are included in jars in my classpath. Is it an issue with those items there? Specifying this WEB_OUT dir in the classpath before the jars that have older versions of them. Here are the lines: <javac srcdir="${WEB_SOURCE}" destdir="${WEB_OUT}" includes="patches/tomcat/${env.DMS_TOMCAT_VERSION}/org/apache/ajp/tomcat4/Aj p13Principal.java" listfiles="yes" /> <javac srcdir="${WEB_SOURCE}" destdir="${WEB_OUT}" includes="patches/cocoon/${env.DMS_COCOON_VERSION}/org/apache/cocoon/Utils.j ava" listfiles="yes" /> -----Original Message----- From: Robert Priest Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 2:56 PM To: 'Ant Users List' Subject: RE: Entire source compiling EVERY time Thanks Jon. I think I understand now.But I have another question (more about style I guess): I have a file under "com\projectwise\web\client\base" called PWClientStarter.java. That is still getting compiled everytime. Now I changed my target to look like: <target name="com" depends="prepare"> <javac srcdir="${WEB_SOURCE}" destdir="${WEB_OUT}" includes="com\**" excludes="com\projectwise\web\client\pwviewer\**" listfiles="yes" /> </target> which works fine for everything except this one particular file. Now that one file does not have a "package" line. Is that what causes it to be compiled everytime? I was able to rectify it by doing a: <target name="com" depends="prepare"> <javac srcdir="${WEB_SOURCE}" destdir="${WEB_OUT}" includes="com\**" excludes="com\projectwise\web\client\pwviewer\**,com\projectwise\web\client\ base\PWClientStarter.java" listfiles="yes" /> <javac srcdir="${WEB_SOURCE}\com\projectwise\web\client\base" destdir="${WEB_OUT}" includes="PWClientStarter.java" listfiles="yes" /> </target> Is that the most elegant way of doing this, or is there a better way? -----Original Message----- From: Jon Skeet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 1:40 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: Entire source compiling EVERY time > Here is my what my target looks like: > > <target name="compile" depends="prepare"> > <javac srcdir="${WEB_SOURCE}\com\projectwise\web\common" > destdir="${WEB_OUT}" /> > <javac srcdir="${WEB_SOURCE}\com\projectwise\web\server" > destdir="${WEB_OUT}" /> > <javac srcdir="${WEB_SOURCE}\com\projectwise\web\client" > destdir="${WEB_OUT}" > excludes="pwviewer\**" > /> > </target> That's your problem - you should be using: <javac srcdir="${WEB_SOURCE}" destdir="${WEB_OUT}" /> and using a filter to get only those directories if that's all you want - otherwise javac thinks that the srcdir value is the *root* of your package tree. Jon -- 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]>