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Subject: allow one to pass a classpath to ant
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From: Jon Schewe <jpschewe@eggplant.mtu.net>
Date: 26 Nov 2000 17:26:35 -0600
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The way that the current ant scripts are setup it's pretty hard to pass in a
classpath to ant and I really don't like setting environment variables to
project specific settings, so I modified the ant shell script as follows:

At the end of the file put the following, just above the execute command and
change the execute command to use $args instead of $@.
#allow someone to add to the classpath
args=""
for arg in $@; do
  echo $arg
  if [ $arg = "-classpath" ]; then
    set grabarg=grab
  elif [ -n $grabarg ]; then
    LOCALCLASSPATH="$LOCALCLASSPATH:$arg"
    unset grabarg
  else
    args="$args $arg"
  fi
done

$JAVACMD -classpath $LOCALCLASSPATH -Dant.home=${ANT_HOME} $ANT_OPTS org.apache.tools.ant.Main $args

Thought someone else might find this handy.  I haven't figured out how to do
this to the batch file too though.

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