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On 8/3/06, Dominique Devienne <ddevienne@gmail.com> wrote:
> > And as far as I know, there is no reasonable iterator or foreach way
> > to wrap up a single symlink task within the fileset.
>
> There is. Ant-Contrib's excellent <for> task. But in your case, since
> <symlink> is forking's the OS's ln command anyway, I'd use <apply
> executable="ln">, which is an implicit for-loop, works with fileset,
> and should give you enough control on the command line. --DD

Super!  Thanks very much.  So the task I want turns out to be:

  <macrodef name="symlinkFileset">
    <attribute name="fsRefid"/>
    <attribute name="destdir"/>
    <sequential>
      <apply executable="ln" dest="@{destdir}"  dir="@{destdir}">
        <arg value="-s"/>
        <arg value="-f"/>
        <arg value="--backup"/>
        <mapper type="flatten"/>
        <fileset refid="@{fsRefid}"/>
      </apply>
    </sequential>
  </macrodef>

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