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DaGuy
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Mar 28, 2003, 05:30 PM
 
I have one main ANT script and I need it to call other ANT scripts that are located in different directories. Can anyone indicate what is the ANT task that allows for running other ANT scripts?

I don't want to use a unix shell script as the master, since would like to keep everything in ANT for portability purposes.

Thanks!
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Mar 28, 2003, 10:29 PM
 
You can use antcall to build additional targets from within a master ant file. Just be sure to define the additional targets appropriately. Is this what you were asking? Anyway, this is what I've used in the past in order to process external ant xml files. I was using Ant 1.4.1. Ant 1.5.x may have a better mechanism. It's been a little while since I've used Ant.
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DaGuy  (op)
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Mar 29, 2003, 12:27 AM
 
Thanks. Your tip led me to look in some other places and eventually found what I was looking for. The task is actually called "ant". Below is an example.

<ant antfile="subproject/subbuild.xml" dir="subproject" target="compile"/>
     
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Mar 29, 2003, 11:41 AM
 
That's good to know for the next time I use Ant. We had a a large trail of targets calling subtargets using antcall. What you found is a little more straight forward.
     
   
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