ant common targets are not recognized by eclipse

Question

Hi All,

I have added all common targets like (init,clean,getivy etc) in ./common/common.xml and added import file="${basedir}/common/common.xml" in build.xml.

When i build the project, its working fine.But, When i open build.xml in eclipse IDE , i see some "Red" marks underneath "targets" which has a dependency targets that are defined in common.xml. And when i do mouse over those Red marked targets, i see a message saying that "Target init does not exist in this project"

Can some one help me to figure it out.

thanks in advance.

--angrezy

Additional Information: "common" folder is added through svn:externals. Does this need extra configurations in eclipse.

Answer 1

Use the include path ${basedir}/common/common.xml because . is probably the directory in which Eclipse is installed.

Answer 2

If your build.xml, and the common directory are at the same directory level then just try

<import file="common/common.xml" />

This works for me fine.

What version of eclipse are you using?

Answer 3

I found a post online here where someone found a workaround. You just need to make the file import not the first line in the ant build file. If you put it after a property declaration for instance the error goes away. This worked fine for me and eclipse is happy now.