By default the file names of the source files will be added to the
end of the command line. If you need to place it somewhere different,
-use a nested <srcfile> element between your
+use a nested
<srcfile> element between your
<arg> elements to mark the insertion point.
It is possible to specify environment variables to pass to the @@ -4498,6 +4499,123 @@ modification time to the current time.
modification time to Jun, 28 2000 2:02 pm (14:02 for those used to 24 hour times).Executes a system command. When the os attribute is specified, then +the command is only executed when Ant is run on one of the specified operating +systems.
+The files and/or directories of a number of FileSets are passed as arguments to the system +command. The timestamp of each source file is compared to the +timestamp of a target file which is defined by a nested mapper element. At least one fileset and exactly +one mapper element are required.
+| Attribute | +Description | +Required | +
| executable | +the command to execute without any command line + arguments. | +Yes | +
| dest | +the directory where the target files will be placed. | +Yes | +
| dir | +the directory in which the command should be executed. | +No | +
| os | +list of Operating Systems on which the command may be + executed. | +No | +
| output | +the file to which the output of the command should be + redirected. | +No | +
| timeout | +Stop the command if it doesn't finish within the + specified time (given in milliseconds). | +No | +
| failonerror | +Stop the buildprocess if the command exits with a + returncode other than 0. | +No | +
| parallel | +Run the command only once, appending all files as + arguments. Defaults to true. If false, command will be executed + once for every file. | +No | +
| type | +One of file, dir or + both. If set to file, only the names of plain + files will be sent to the command. If set to dir, only + the names of directories are considered. | +No, default is file | +
You can use any number of nested <fileset>
+elements to define the files for this task and refer to
+<fileset>s defined elsewhere.
Command line arguments should be specified as nested
+<arg> elements. See Command line arguments.
By default the file names of the source files will be added to the
+end of the command line. If you need to place it somewhere different,
+use a nested <srcfile> element between your
+<arg> elements to mark the insertion point.
+
<targetfile> is similar to
+<srcfile> and marks the position of the target
+filename on the command line. If omitted, the target filenames will
+not be added to the command line at all.
It is possible to specify environment variables to pass to the
+system command via nested <env> elements. See the
+description in the section about exec
Please note that the environment of the current Ant process is
+not passed to the system command if you specify variables using
+<env>.
++<transform executable="cc" dest="src/C" parallel="false"> + <arg value="-c" /> + <arg value="-o" /> + <targetfile/> + <srcfile/> + <fileset dir="src/C" includes="*.c" /> + <mapper type="glob" from="*.c" to="*.o" /> +</transform> +
invokes cc -c -o TARGETFILE SOURCEFILE for each
+.c file that is newer than the corresponding
+.o, replacing TARGETFILE with the absolute filename of
+the .o and SOURCEFILE with the absolute name of the
+.c file.
Sets the DSTAMP, TSTAMP and TODAY properties in the current project. The