This question really belongs on the ant-user mailing list.
Byt anyways, what you want is the <uptodate> task, this link
http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/manual/CoreTasks/uptodate.html
contains an example that should fit your needs.
hth ///
Magnus Sjöberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have in my application a set of FO file, that i have to convert in PDF. I
> would like to do this with ant. so i wrote those lines:
>
> <apply executable="fop" os="Linux" dest="${build.src}">
> <srcfiles/>
> <targetfiles/>
> <fileset dir="${src.dir}">
> <patternset>
> <include name="**/*.fo"/>
> </patternset>
> </fileset>
> <mapper type="glob" from="*.fo" to="*.pdf"/>
> </apply>
>
> that runs pretty well. My problem is that when i execute this, it re-create
> all
> the pdf each time, even if the .fo had not been update! I would like to notify
> to my apply tag that: if the .fo didn't change, don't create the .pdf. In
> fact,
> I just want to do the same as <javac>, that doesn't compile the .java if it
> still the same.
> Do you follow me ?
> Is there anyone having the same problem?
> thanks for helping,
>
> Ludo.
>
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