Using wildcards in the classpath

[John Cleary <jo...@innovit.com>]

Hi people,

I'm writing my first build script and I'm starting to get frustrated
(mainly because of my own stupidity).

Is this a valid build.xml snippet?

<javac srcdir="${srcDir}" destdir="${buildDir}" target="1.2"
classpath="${libDir}/**">

It doesn't seem to expand out the classpath...

Any ideas?

John.

RE: Using wildcards in the classpath

[Adam Murdoch <ad...@yahoo.com>]

Hi,

Patterns in the classpath attribute don't get expanded.  You should use a
nested file set instead:

<javac srcdir="..." destdir="...">
	<classpath>
		<fileset dir="${libdir}"/>
	</classpath>
</javac>

This'll pull everything under ${libdir} into the classpath.  You might want
to qualify this with an includes or excludes attribute on the <fileset>
element if there's non-jar/zip files in there.

You'll need to be using ant 1.2 to do this.  Grab one of the nightly builds
if you're using something older


Adam


> -----Original Message-----
> From: johnc [mailto:johnc]On Behalf Of John Cleary
> Sent: Tuesday, 3 October 2000 9:31 AM
> To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Using wildcards in the classpath
>
>
> Hi people,
>
> I'm writing my first build script and I'm starting to get frustrated
> (mainly because of my own stupidity).
>
> Is this a valid build.xml snippet?
>
> <javac srcdir="${srcDir}" destdir="${buildDir}" target="1.2"
> classpath="${libDir}/**">
>
> It doesn't seem to expand out the classpath...
>
> Any ideas?
>
> John.


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