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From: Peter Donald <donaldp@apache.org>
To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: Re: How to manage without rules
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 08:18:07 +1000
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On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 02:43, WATKINS, Andy, FM wrote:
> In make you have rules, not so in ant

yet ... hopefully Ant will have notion of rules in future ;)

However there is no real easy way of doing it currently. The best way may be 
to use <antcall> to call the target and pass in the specific parameters you 
want to use.

> I have a target as follows
>
>   <target name="project1_test" depends="">
>     <junit printsummary="no" haltonfailure="yes" fork="yes"
> timeout="60000"> <jvmarg value="-Dlog.dir=project1" />
>
>       <classpath>
>         <path refid="localclasses"/>
>         <path refid="classpath"/>
>       </classpath>
>
>       <formatter usefile="false" type="plain" />
>
>       <batchtest fork="yes">
>         <fileset dir="${rbsfm}/project1/classes"
> includes="**/*$$Test.class" />
>       </batchtest>
>     </junit>
>     <echo message="Common tests completed OK" />
>   </target>
>
>
>
>
> The problem is that I have 10 different projects, that all need this
> sort of target, but with different directories.
>
> In make, I would have a target called "*.test" and use $@ to pull out the
> value
>
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-- 
Cheers,

Pete

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