[Swift-devel] build dependencies

[Mihael Hategan]

On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 10:49 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> I've been building provider-deef on my machine recently by having it 
> listed as a dependency of swift in build.xml (a patch in my quilt stack 
> adds that in as part of my local configuration). This seems to solve the 
> 'provider-deef overwriting the log config file' problem for me.
> 
> It might be interesting to make it possible to specify dependencies like 
> this at build time on the commandline to ant.
> 
> (this is very similar to the unix world way of saying:
> 
> > ./configure --enable-ipv6 --disable-sasl
> > make
> 
> in order to determine if you want to have dependencies or not on ipv6 and 
> sasl (and hence corresponding features) in some software)

A similar thing can be done by passing properties to ant and then using
them to drive certain parts of the build (or not). Though it looks more
like -Denable-ipv6=true.

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