Improvements to ANT build scripts

• Key: AXISCPP-236
• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Minor
• Assignee: Adrian Dick
• Reporter: Adrian Dick
• Component/s: Build - ANT
• Affects Version/s: current (nightly)
• Fix Version/s: current (nightly)

Description

Requests for a number of small improvements have been mentioned on the mailing list.

These include:
- Moving all but build.xml into a build/ subdirectory
    I would also include package.xml and test.xml in the root directory
- Allowing Doc generation and Client/Server compilation to be optional
    Similar to the structure used for selecting which transport, XML Parser and Apache plugin variant, entries could be added to the property files
- Allowing ${basedir}/../../../obj and ${basedir}/../../../zip to be overriden
    This should be substituted for a variable name ( ${dir.obj} and ${dir.zip}? ), allowing those wishing different to simply override them once.
- Set CC compilation tasks to fail on error
    Currently they don't, requiring builders to scan back through the log, as ANT will always say BUILD SUCCESSFUL.

Comments

[Nadir Amra]

With regards to obj and zip directories, I think we should have them there by default and the paths should by default be set to:

${basedir}/obj
${basedir}/zip

instead of

${basedir}/../../../obj and ${basedir}/../../../zip

This would allow users to kick off a build without creating anything.

[John Hawkins]

Fixed.