Hello, I need to check whether certain executables are available in my Ant build script. Depending on availability, parts of the build would be executed or not.
On Unix-likes, I could "exec" a "where <name_of_tool>" and redirect output to a property. Since "where" is silent when not found, this could work. For non-Unix boxes, I could (and have done so) create a trivial Java program that takes PATH and the tool name, and searches for an existing file along the path. But this is all very inconvenient. It would be much better if the <available> task, or the <available> nested element of <condition> would allow me to test for the availability of any given executable. Anyone aware of the existence of such an Ant task? Or an alternative way to express this in Ant? Thanks a lot -Otto Perdeck -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
