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Subject: RE: How to make generic rules
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 08:15:08 +0300
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From: "North Alex" <Alex.North@tapiola.fi>
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>I'm an old makefile user. Now i'm an ant user.
>But i haven't yet found a way to replace a powerfull=20
>functionality of make: implicit rules and import of rule from=20
>a makefile in another makefile (include). In fact i need to=20
>overide some task in order to define implicit properties.
>
>For example i want to set the compress attribute of jar task=20
>to false one time for the full build file and not to set it=20
>for each jar task.
>
>How can i do this?

One way could be to set a property and use "unless" for a target that
sets the properties you want.

You can also call <ant> and set properties for that ant call ... or use
<antcall> :

	<antcall target=3D"update.changehistory">
		<param name=3D"history.version"
value=3D"${component.version}"/>
	</antcall>

	<antcall target=3D"update.changehistory">
		<param name=3D"history.version"
value=3D"${baseline.version}"/>
	</antcall>

So, update.changehistory can be called from different places with
different values for the history.version

Hope that is useful.

<=3D Alex =3D>

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