ant - a Java based make tool.
ant [OPTION]... [TARGET [TARGET2] [TARGET3]
...]]
Like make ant is a tool by which projects can be build. But unlike
it, ant is based on Java which means it will run on every platform for
which a Java Virtual Machine is available. This makes it a great tool for
building Java software.
By default it takes information from build.xml which
describes the targets.
- -help
- print help on the command line options
- -projecthelp
- gives information on possible targets for this project
- -version
- returns the version number ant
- -quiet
- be extra quiet
- -verbose
- be extra verbose
- -debug
- print debugging information
- -emacs
- produce logging information without adornments
- -logfile <file>
- use the given file to output log to
- -logger <classname>
- use the given class to perform loggin
- -listener <classname>
- add an instance of the given class as a project listener
- -buildfile <file>
- use the given buildfile instead of the default build.xml file. This
is the ant equivalent of Makefile
- -D<property>=<value>
- use value for the given property
This manpage is written by Egon Willighagen <egonw@sci.kun.nl>