.TH ant 1 "April 2001" "Debian/GNU Linux"
.SH NAME

ant - a Java based make tool.

.SH SYNOPSIS

.B ant
[\fIOPTION\fR]... [\fITARGET [\fITARGET2\fR] [\fITARGET3\fR] ...\fR]\fR]

.SH DESCRIPTION

Like 
.B make
.B ant 
is a tool by which projects can be build. But unlike it, 
.B ant 
is based on Java which means it will run on every platform
for which a Java Virtual Machine is available. This makes it a great
tool for building Java software.

By default it takes information from
.B build.xml
which describes the targets.

.TP
\fB\-help\fR
print help on the command line options
.TP
\fB\-projecthelp\fR
gives information on possible targets for this project
.TP
\fB\-version\fR
returns the version number 
.B ant
.TP
\fB\-quiet\fR
be extra quiet
.TP
\fB\-verbose\fR
be extra verbose
.TP
\fB\-debug\fR
print debugging information
.TP
\fB\-emacs\fR
produce logging information without adornments
.TP
\fB\-logfile\fR <\fIfile\fR>
use the given file to output log to
.TP
\fB\-logger\fR <\fIclassname\fR>
use the given class to perform loggin
.TP
\fB\-listener\fR <\fIclassname\fR>
add an instance of the given class as a project listener
.TP
\fB\-buildfile\fR <\fIfile\fR>
use the given buildfile instead of the default
.B build.xml
file. This is the 
.B ant
equivalent of
.B Makefile
.TP
\fB\-D\fR<\fIproperty\fR>=<\fIvalue\Fr>
use value for the given property

.SH SEE ALSO
.BR make (1)

.SH AUTHOR
This manpage is written by Egon Willighagen <egonw@sci.kun.nl>