Including a common build file with common targets.

[Albertus Vermeulen <Al...@meb.co.za>]

Hi,

I'm new to Ant and would like to move our current Makefiles to Ant. I have a
requirement to be able to include common properties and targets from a
shared file.

In the archives&faq I have seen recommendations to use a command of the
following syntax:

<!DOCTYPE project [<!ENTITY common SYSTEM "file:./common.xml">]>

Unfortunately for me I don't have a fixed location for the common.xml file.
I need to use an environment variable to specify the location (i.e.
something like: file:${SOME_DIR}/common.xml )and therefor the above doesn't
work for me.

Using <property environment="ENV"/> I can access environment properties from
a shared location but unfortunately not the common targets I need. 
<property file="${ENV.DEVELOP_HOME}/tools/make/.antproperties"/>

Does anyone have some ideas? I saw someone mention the Jakarta-Taglibs
project, but I could not see where any files made reference to the
common.xml file ?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Albertus