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Q: ANT and Manifests

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  • 06-12-2001 10:27am
    #1
    Hobbes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭


    Does ANT have an option to create a manifest file with the files that are actually put into jar using the <jar/> command?


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    bonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭bonkey


    Not really.

    Ant will build a "simple" manifest file if none is supplied in the command. Otherwise, you build your own manifest file, and include it with the <manifest> tag (and NOT as part of the <includes> stuff.

    You rbest bet (if you need something better than the simple manifest file ANT will build for you) is to find some other way of guilding your manifest file (an external app perhaps?) and have a 2-step target which builds this file, then runs a <jar> command with this pre-built file specified in <manifest>

    jc


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    Hobbes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    I'm writing up an ANT plugin to do it. =/

    I would prefer an external tool that didn't involve having to extract the jars after building them though. =\


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