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From: "Marc Portier" <Marc.Portier@the-ecorp.com>
To: <ant-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: RE: adding class-path to manifest
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 09:21:09 +0200
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taking this step by step:
1. you create your build file as suggested by Isaac
 <jar
    jarfile="NameofJartoCreate.jar"

basedir="wheretojarfrom_is_a_directory_that_holds_NO_Manifest.mf_in_either_s
ubdir"
    manifest="yourManuallyEdited.mf"
 />
2. you manually edit your own Manifest file, but you don't put it in the
basedir somewhere
  _manually_ means you edit yourself the file to hold the line:
    Class-Path: struts.jar
3. instead you put it and call it as denoted in the manifest attribute of
the jar task


said all that I do understand what you're getting at, I think...
the point is that you probably already have some ${cp} property you're using
in some <target name="testrun" />
and you (well, we all, I guess) hate the idea that you manually have to sync
additional needed jars in both the build.xml and the infamous
yourManuallyEdited.mf
(by the way: the same holds for the Main-Class manifest entry that doubles
to the java classname="Main-Class" attribute, this for the java -jar
addicts)

would be interesting to understand how the jar task now generates it's own
Manifest.mf... and have a look into how that could be extended to maybe
slide in a line or 2?  (maybe it's not even the jar task doing it but the
underlaying JDK utility?)... that, or a manifest-building task preceeding
the jar task?

-marc=
> -----Original Message-----
> From: G.L. Grobe [mailto:gary@grobe.org]
> Sent: donderdag 12 april 2001 0:59
> To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Re: adding class-path to manifest
>
>
> So if NameofJartoCreate.jar is the jar i'm creating and it
> depends on an
> external jar called struts.jar, where is the file struts.jar
> or it's path to
> struts.jar being added? All I can see from here is that I'd know what
> manifest to use.
>
> <jar
>     jarfile="NameofJartoCreate.jar"
>     basedir="wheretojarfrom"
>     manifest="nameofManifestfile"
> />
>
> Thnxs for replying
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Isaac Sparrow (Staff Engineer)" <isaac.sparrow@visicomp.com>
> To: <ant-user@jakarta.apache.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 5:53 PM
> Subject: Re: adding class-path to manifest
>
>
> > "G.L. Grobe" wrote:
> > >
> > > Reposting for some help here.
> > >
> > > How do you tell Ant to add an external jar file to the
> MANIFEST.MF that
> > > my-ejb.jar file depends on? If I manually add the
> MANIFEST.MF, it get's
> > > ignored and Ant creates an empty one.
> > >
> > > I need this in the file (I think) as my ejb's are not finding the
> correct
> > > paths to this jar.
> > >
> > > Class-Path: ../struts.jar
> > >
> > > Any help much appreciated.
> >
> > I have ant add a manifest I have created like this:
> >
> > <jar
> >    jarfile="NameofJartoCreate.jar"
> >    basedir="wheretojarfrom"
> >    manifest="nameofManifestfile"
> > />
> >
> >
> > Hope this helps!
> >
> > --
> > --Isaac Sparrow
> > --------------------------
> > Staff Engineer
> > VisiComp, Inc.
> >
> > http://www.visicomp.com
> >
>