Re: Initial file for Ant

Jaikiran Pai <[email protected]> Sat, 14 Aug 2021 17:40:22 +0530
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.ant.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Julius,

Ant looks for build.xml in the current directory (the directory from 
where you trigger the ant command). More details are available in our 
docs https://ant.apache.org/manual/index.html

-Jaikiran

On 14/08/21 5:03 pm, Julius Hamilton wrote:
> I would like to study the source code for YaCy, a peer to peer open source
> search engine. On their GitHub, it details that the tool is built from
> source with "ant clean".
>
> I looked through the YaCy project repository but I wasn't able to pick out
> which initial file ant would look for to begin a configuration, building
> and installation procedure, analogous to the command "make" looking for a
> makefile.
>
> Is there a specific file ant looks for? Or does it work a different way?
>
> Thanks very much,
> Julius
>