Thanks!

I have realised since I sent this that doing a dependency check for an rmic
task is not entirely trivial. I will take a look at the task and see if I
can come up with a workable patch.

Cheers,
Andi.

-----Original Message-----
From: James Duncan Davidson [mailto:james.davidson@eng.sun.com]
Sent: 18 June 2000 09:15
To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: Re: rmic task always performed?


on 6/1/00 1:23 AM, Everitt, Andrew at Andrew.Everitt@gbr.xerox.com wrote:

> It seems like the rmic task doesn't check to see if the target .class
files
> exist, it seems like it always does the rmic regardless. Is this correct?
Is
> it possible to modify the taskdef so that it does a dependency check? Can
> someone point me in the right direction, any help would be much
appreciated.

Yep. Your right. It's was a quicky hack to do something I needed it to do.
The file that performs it is in org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Rmic (I think
as I'm typing from memory and offline)

.duncan