How to enable verbose output using the ant task and inheritall="false"

Question

When starting a build in verbose mode (ant -v) the verbose mode is not propagated to the "subants". The ant task looks like this:

<ant antfile="${buildproject}" inheritall="false" target="${target}" output="${output.file}">           
  <property name="repo.global" value="/repo"/>
  <property name="proj.property.prefix" value="${property_prefix}"/>        
</ant>

We don't want to propagate all properties because we try to remove an old build system. Any ideas how to preserve the "verbose" output without using the exec task?

see this, on how to use javascript http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5462732/make-ant-quiet-without-the-q-flag — Kalpesh Soni, Mar 03 '14 at 17:10

Andreas Kraft · Accepted Answer · 2009-12-18T19:28:48.293

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I had to deal with something similar just last month. You probably need to define you own task to change the loglevel in a script. The following blog entry (http://codefeed.com/blog/?p=82) helped a lot. The author provides all the necessary source code.

edited Dec 18 '09 at 19:28

answered Dec 17 '09 at 22:16

Andreas Kraft

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This seems to be the answer. I'll try it next week using an script task. – dz. Dec 18 '09 at 18:10

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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If you don't want to create your own task with all that hassle, there is a embedded-javascript-snippet answer in this SO-question.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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answered Apr 04 '13 at 11:55

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How to enable verbose output using the ant task and inheritall="false"

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