[Ant-contrib-developers] Re: suggestion

[Curt A. <ca...@ho...>]

Inger, Matthew wrote:

> would it be possible to have something like the following in the CC task?
>
> <syslibset if="windows">
>   <libset dir="${oledbpro.lib.dir}" libs="OleDB25R" unless="is-debug" />
>   <libset dir="${oledbpro.lib.dir}" libs="OleDB25D" if="is-debug" />
> </syslibset>
>
> basically, the point is to nest "libset" objects so that any outer 
> libset can
> have an "if" tag.  The problem i'm trying to solve here is that any 
> windows compiler
> for our project has to include "OleDB25" library.  However, if it's a 
> debug compile,
> we need "OleDB25D" and for release "OleDB25R".  I know i could 
> accomplish the
> same thing by :
>
>     <condition property="use-oledb25-debug">
>       <and><os family="windows" /><equals arg1="${debug}" value="true" 
> /></and>
>     </condition>
>
> and switching on that, but it's much
>

The pattern of adding a suffix (say "D") after the filename for a debug 
lib is common enough that support for it could be added to <libset>, such as

  <libset dir="${oledbpro.lib.dir}" libs="OleDB25" debug-suffix="D" 
release-suffix="R" />