[Guide] Log errors on ant

[oceeman]

If you are using TortoiseSVN + Ant build and you get errors it is a pain to resolve them without having logs. Here is a patch that will solve the problem:

Index: build.xml
===================================================================
--- build.xml	(revision 1475)
+++ build.xml	(working copy)
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@
        	<include name="trove-2.1.0.jar"/>
        </fileset>
    </path>
-
	<target name="verifyRequirements" 
		description="Checks if the necessary requirements for building L2J are fulfilled">

@@ -56,6 +55,16 @@
    	depends="clean, verifyRequirements"
        description="Create the output directories.">

+	<tstamp>
+	    <format property="timestamp" pattern="yyyy-MM-dd_HH-mm-ss"/>
+	  </tstamp>
+	  <property name="build.log.dir" location="${basedir}/buildlogs"/>
+	  <mkdir dir="${build.log.dir}"/>
+	  <property name="build.log.filename" value="build_${timestamp}.log"/>
+	  <record name="${build.log.dir}/${build.log.filename}"
+	    loglevel="verbose" append="false"/>
+	  <echo message="Build logged to ${build.log.filename}"/>
+
        <mkdir dir="${build}"/>
        <mkdir dir="${build.classes}"/>
        <mkdir dir="${build.dist}" />

 

You can also open your build.xml with an editor (like Notepad), find <target name="init" and insert the following lines after description="Create the output directories.">:

	<tstamp>
    <format property="timestamp" pattern="yyyy-MM-dd_HH-mm-ss"/>
  </tstamp>
  <property name="build.log.dir" location="${basedir}/buildlogs"/>
  <mkdir dir="${build.log.dir}"/>
  <property name="build.log.filename" value="build_${timestamp}.log"/>
  <record name="${build.log.dir}/${build.log.filename}"
    loglevel="verbose" append="false"/>
  <echo message="Build logged to ${build.log.filename}"/>

[Intrepid]

compile with eclipse...or compile with a batch script which calls the ant function...