The problem is that you use the "genericantfile" attribute.
This implies the current (master) script into the projects. Therefore you'll 
get a cycle between <subant> and <import>.

Jan 

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Francisco Tolmasky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 29. November 2007 13:43
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: Alternative to subant
> 
> My project currently uses a common build file to build a 
> number of sub- 
> projects
> (each of which may also have a sub-project as well).  My first  
> inclination was thus
> to use the subant task to build all these subprojects, as so (almost  
> straight out of
> and subtask documentation):
> 
>      <macrodef name = "iterate">
> 
>          <attribute name = "target"/>
> 
>          <sequential>
>              <subant inheritall="false" inheritrefs="false" target =  
> "@{target}" genericantfile = "build.xml">
>                  <dirset dir = "." includes = "*.subproj"/>
>              </subant>
>          </sequential>
> 
>      </macrodef>
> 
>      <target name = "Build-Project">
> 
>       <!-- Do Stuff -->
> 
>       <iterate target = "Build-Project" />
> </target>
> 
> However, this fails with "subant task calling its own parent 
> target."   
> This shouldn't be happening
> because I am calling the target on a different directory.  I snooped  
> around the web and enough
> people have run into this for me to consider it a bug and 
> thus a lost  
> cause.  My question instead
> is how to alternatively achieve this same effect.  I tried using  
> <apply executable = "ant"> to
> achieve something similar to this, but with little luck.  Any 
> thoughts  
> or suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Francisco Tolmasky
> 
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