Master build file and Sub-projects

[Karthi Prabhakaran <an...@yahoo.com>]

I have my Project structure like this :

ProjectRoot 

    L Sub-Project1

    L Sub-Project2

    L etc.

 

The "ProjectRoot" directory has a build.xml (call it the Master build file) with a set of targets and each of the Sub-Projects have a "<Sub-Projectn>.xml" which will have a subset of targets that are in <ProjectRoot>/build.xml.

Currently, the way I build each Sub-Project is by using a CURRENT_SUB_PROJECT variable (set in a property file) and then doing a :

 <target name="build_sources" description=" - Will build your sources and create the library (.JAR/.DLL/.so etc..)">
   <ant antfile="${CURRENT_SUB_PROJECT}.xml" dir="${CURRENT_SUB_PROJECT}" target="build_sources"/>
 </target>

The above line will be in the Master build file (build.xml) in the ProjectRoot directory.  Assuming that CURRENT_SUB_PROJECT=Sub-Project1 in the property file that is read by build.xml, this will invoke ant on Sub-Project1.xml in that directory with the target "build_source".

This involves editing the property file and changing the CURRENT_SUB_PROJECT for every sub-project to be built. 

I dont want to do this edit and build step.  Instead, I want to run through each of the Sub-Project<n> (whichever ones are present) directories and then invoke a particular target on them from the master build.xml.

Can somebody suggest any ideas ?

 

Thanks

Karthi

 

 

 

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