I am clearly misunderstanding the documentation. I am trying to move to ant from a
configuration where I was using a .bat file to compile my program. My classes are all
in the Census package so I have a directory containing the source which has a
subdirectory of Census which contains the compiled classes. The documentation on the
javac task specifically mentions the need to have the directory structure mirror the
package hierarchy.
So exactly what do I put in the destdir attribute? I assumed that I had to point at
the top of the package hierarchy, so I put "." there, but that doesn't work. So I put
in "Census" but then it creates "Census/Census" and puts the classes one level too
deep. I am clearly doing something wrong because every time I run ant it indicates
that it is compiling every one of my programs, even if it has just finished compiling
them.
<project name="CensusUtility" default="compile" basedir=".">
<description>
build the Census database maintenance utility
</description>
<!-- set global properties for this build -->
<property name="src" location="."/>
<property name="classes" location="Census"/>
<target name="compile"
description="compile the source " >
<depend srcdir="${src}" destdir="${classes}" />
<!-- Compile the java code from ${src} into ${classes} -->
<javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${classes}"
classpath=".;C:\jdk1.3.1\lib;lib\jakarta-poi-1.5.1-final-20020615.jar"/>
</target>
<target name="dist" depends="compile"
description="generate the distribution" >
<!-- Put everything in ${classes} into the MyProject-${DSTAMP}.jar file -->
<jar jarfile="CensusUtility-${DSTAMP}.jar" basedir="${classes}"/>
</target>
</project>
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