Re: [docbook-apps] WebHelp search indexes

[Stefan Hinz <stefan.hinz@oracle.com>]

Hi David,

> > > There's no reason you can't call ant from your Makefile. Best of
> > > both worlds.
> >
> > I know, but Ant would still require configurations to be made in
> > the build.xml and build.properties files. In other words, I
> > couldn't configure Ant to read options from a Makefile, or could
> > I?
>
> Indeed you can set values to properties from the command line;
>
> "You can also set properties on the command line. This can be done
> with the -Dproperty=value option, where property is the name of the
> property, and value is the value for that property. If you specify a
> property that is also set in the build file (see the property task),
> the value specified on the command line will override the value
> specified in the build file."
>
> https://ant.apache.org/manual/running.html
>
> I suspect it will save you some effort if you can just use the ant
> script and invoke it from Make.

Wow, good to know! Thanks much; I'll try this out.

Cheers,

Stefan

> Btw., you can also keep one copy of the main ant script on your system
> and import it into small/mostly empty ant files for each doc or set of
> docs.
>
> David
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