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Posted to dev@ant.apache.org by Kevin Toomey <to...@yahoo.com> on 2000/06/30 23:16:29 UTC

Does Ant (task javac) search CLASSPATH?

I'm a new user of Ant and have a question.

Does the javac task work the same way as the JDK's
javac command? If it tries to compile A.java which
references class B, and B.class doesn't exist, will it
 traverse the entire CLASSPATH, looking for B.java,
compile it, and then compile A.java?

I installed Ant from ant-20000628.zip on Windows NT,
and it's not doing that for me. 

My environment looks like this:
________
| dir1 |
--------
   |________________________________
___|____                        ____|___
| dir2 |                        | dir3 |
--------                        --------
   |                                |
 A.java(package dir2)           B.java(package dir3)

My classpath contains dir1.

An "import dir3.B" statement in A.java fails.

Thanks for any help.

Kevin.

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