<echo message="soup"/> I think. well give a try & pray.
On November 21, 2005 06:44 pm, Brown, Carlton wrote: > As I'm learning Ant, one thing I miss bitterly is the ability to print, > echo, or otherwise inspect every piece of data in order to see where > things are going wrong. I'm having some trouble with a mapper > statement, and if anybody could tell me how to observe what's getting > matched by the asterisk, that would be great. > > > > For example, if I had a fragment like: > > > > <uptodate property="is.uptodate"> > > <srcfiles dir="src" > includes="*.java"/> > > <mapper type="glob" from="*.java" > to="build/classes/*.class"/> > > </uptodate> > > > > Some variations of the above task don't work, and I'd be so happy if I > could see what my "to" and "from" attributes are evaluating to. It > would be great if there were some way to echo out the asterisk value, > unfortunately I haven't come across a way to do that. If anybody has > an answer, I'd be much appreciative. > > > > Somebody is bound to point out that the above task works as written, > which is true. So I'll mention that what I'm trying to do is compare > subdirectories of the src structure rather than the entire thing. By > varying the dir attribute of the srcfiles task in parallel with the "to" > attribute of the mapper task, I can get as far as 3 subdirectories deep. > But if I try to drill farther than the parent of the directory > containing the actual *.class files, the property doesn't get set. So > I'm trying to figure out why this is happening. > > > > -Carlton --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
