I really did some arm-twisting about a year ago...

Knowing noting about Ant, I wrote this Makefile to handle all the various tasks (or targets). Given all the built in tasks from Ant could have made things easier. I wonder if there's any tool/utility which can convert Makfiles to Ant build scripts?

Assuming there are none, I have some questions that I will keep on adding to this post as they come up. Thanks in advance for you assistance and guidance and comments.

This is a target from the Makefile:

			

			ALL_SERVERS = UnixServ1 UnixServ2 UnixServ3 UnixServ4
			

			

			install2prod:
			

			test $$(whoami) = "ops"  # You must be ops to do the install
			

			@echo installing prod in /ops/daemon/app_dist to ${ALL_SERVERS}
			

			cp -r classes/    app_dist_prod/bin/
			

			cp app_dist.pl    app_dist_prod/bin/
			

			@for sys in  ${ALL_SERVERS};
			

			do
			

			echo Installing on $$sys;
			

			remsh $$sys rm -r /ops/daemon/app_dist;
			

			rcp -r app_dist_prod/ $$sys:/ops/daemon/app_dist;
			

			done
			

			@echo All done
			

		

1. Check if the current (Unix) login id is "ops"; abort if false
   
2. print a message "installing prod in /ops/daemon/app_dist to UnixServ1 UnixServ2 UnixServ3 UnixServ4"
   
3. Copy the classes dir tree to app_dist_prod/bin/
   
4. Copy the app_dist.pl script to app_dist_prod/bin/
   
5. Install to ALL_SERVERS:
   
   
   
   • Print a message "Installing on sys "
     
   • Delete the dir tree /ops/daemon/app_dist on remote sys
     
   • Copy the dir tree app_dist_prod/ to ops/daemon/app_dist on remote sys
     
   
   
6. Print a message "All done"
   

• How do you remsh or rpc in Ant?
  
• How do you (or can you:() loop over a list of values such as ${ALL_SERVERS}?
  

Leslie