通过make调用ant命令

Question

I'm trying to do soemthing which may not be done that often. It's part of our test code which uses a wide variety tools: java, ant, make, and xml.

Our java testing tool parses XML. It gets an argument via an XML tag from a file:

<TAG>-Darg1="argument1" -Darg2="argument2"</TAG>

Within the java code, I'm calling the make command. The make command is invoked from java (via ProcessBuilder).

In the makefile, I am calling ant where the -Darg="argument1" -Darg2="argument2" args should be passed.

But it's not working.

Anyways, it seems that the -D from the -Darg1= ... part is not compatible with make, so I'm trying to enclose that in a variable that I can pass through make to ant. Within ant it's taking the variable " RULES_ARG " and treating that as one argument, instead of two.

I've tried various quoting mechanisms in xml: "-Darg1=argument1 -Darg2=argument2", "-Darg1="argument1" -Darg2="argument2""

and also where it's invoked in java: "RULES_ARGS="+RulesArgs+" ", "RULES_ARGS=\\""+RulesArgs+"\\" " (in combination with the xml part).

etc. all with no desirable result.

I was wondering if anyone has tried to do something similar, and the working approach to the problem?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Are you saying you're trying to run make with -D options? That won't work because make doesn't support -D .

If you're trying to pass some flags through the make command line to be used on the ant invocation, then you should do something like this: when you run make set a variable on the make command line:

make ANTFLAGS='-DFOO -DBAR -DBAZ'

Then inside your makefile, when you run ant, pass that variable:

runant:
         ant $(ANTFLAGS) ...

If that's not what you're trying to do please clarify your question. For example, you say it's not working and no desirable result , but you don't give any details about what errors or incorrect behavior you see. Such error messages would go a long way towards clarifying exactly what's going on.