ant(1)ant(1)NAMEant - a Java based make tool.
SYNOPSISant [OPTION]... [TARGET [TARGET2] [TARGET3] ...]]
DESCRIPTION
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 tar‐
gets.
-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
SEE ALSOmake(1)AUTHOR
This manpage is written by Egon Willighagen <egonw@sci.kun.nl>
Debian/GNU Linux April 2001 ant(1)