apply task

[Shawn Castrianni <Sh...@halliburton.com>]

I just discovered the apply task as a better exec task.  I like that it automatically loops through the fileset one at a time and automatically does a timestamp check if you give it a dest and mapper.  However, I have one small problem.  On windows, the C compiler specifies the output file name with a /Fofoo.obj such that the output filename is directly after /Fo with no space in between.  The apply task provides me with a <targetfile/> tag which is the place holder for the target file name, but it treats this as a separate argument to the executable.  Therefore, it puts a space in between /Fo and <targetfile/>.  This break the C compiler on windows.  How can I specify that <targetfile/> should be part of the previous <arg value="/Fo"/>.  Is there some property that is set for each file as apply loops through the fileset so that I can use the property name instead of the <targetfile/> tag?

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Shawn Castrianni

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Re: apply task

[Dominique Devienne <dd...@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 12:57 AM, Shawn Castrianni
<Sh...@halliburton.com> wrote:
> I just discovered the apply task as a better exec task.  I like that it automatically loops through the fileset one at a time and automatically does a timestamp check if you give it a dest and mapper.  However, I have one small problem.  On windows, the C compiler specifies the output file name with a /Fofoo.obj such that the output filename is directly after /Fo with no space in between.  The apply task provides me with a <targetfile/> tag which is the place holder for the target file name, but it treats this as a separate argument to the executable.  Therefore, it puts a space in between /Fo and <targetfile/>.  This break the C compiler on windows.  How can I specify that <targetfile/> should be part of the previous <arg value="/Fo"/>.  Is there some property that is set for each file as apply loops through the fileset so that I can use the property name instead of the <targetfile/> tag?

Hmmm, you may not like this answer Shawn, but don't use <apply> for C
compiles, use CppTasks instead. You even have plenty of builds already
using it as examples ;-)

--DD

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