--- Scott Ellsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can I load that with a taskdef, or must it go in ant/lib?
You wouldn't <taskdef> it, as it's not a task -- it's a logger. You'd just
specify it as the parameter to the -logger flag on your command line. (You
can set it in the ANT_ARGS var for the nightly-build environment.)
> I have a question about the classpath. Are the ant and optional jars
> in the compiler classpath when things are set up in the out of the box
> fashion?
If you haven't turned off 'includeAntRuntime' in your <javac> task, yes.
> If I understand things properly, the ant classes are not in
> the classpath by default,
No, actually, they are by default -- the wrapper script(s) put them in
there. You need to set <javac>'s 'includeantruntime' attribute to
no|off|false to have them not be in the classpath you compile with.
> so if I wish to compile a new logger, or a new task, I have to have
> ant.jar in a known spot on the classpath.
If you're compiling it with Ant, you don't need to worry about it. Here's
my little build file for compiling stuff like that:
<project default="compile">
<target name="compile">
<fail unless="file" message="The 'file' property must be set."/>
<javac
debug="true"
srcdir="."
destdir="."
includes="${file}">
</javac>
</target>
</project>
It lives at the top of my $HOME/src/java tree -- so I'd just do, eg.:
$ ant -Dfile=my/ant/stuff/NewAntDooHiggee.java[,...]
Assuming all went well, then I just do:
$ jar cvfM doohiggee.jar my/ant/stuff/NewAntDooHiggee.class
$ mv doohiggee.jar $ANT_HOME/lib
I suppose I could put all of that in my little build file as well -- just
never got around to doing that.
> Our build system is explicitly not allowed to know the location of the
> build tools, so to compile an ANT task or logger, I have to put a copy
> of ANT jar in our "third party libraries to be compiled against".
Not if you use Ant for your build system.
Diane
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