Hi all,

So suppose that I have an ANT build file with a number of properties set in
it, and some of those properties depend on previously defined ones, like so:

   <property name="pcsRootDir" value="/pcs/pcs-HEAD">
   <property name="mncRootDir" value="/mnc_core/mnc_core-HEAD">
   <property name="fwkRootDir" value="/server_fwk/fwk">
   <property name="mncBldrSrc" value="${mncRootDir}/bldr/mnc/java/src">

... etc.

I then want to make the build file more generic, so that I can swap in new
values for those properties. I can create a *.properties file, and pass it
as a command-line param to ANT, but ANT does not recursively resolve the
values in property files.

So, is there some way to get ANT to handle these recursive definitions?
Perhaps, is there some way to include a separate XML file in the mail build
file, and this CML file contains the property definitions? I am aware that
you can map to targets in a separate XML file, but its properties are not
visible from the main build file.

Dave Rudolf