passing a location of build.xml in ant

Question

I'm trying to run a script that uses an ANT build but I don't want to have to run it from the location where my build.xml file is. Is there a way to pass the location to ant?

Thanks in advanced

Answer 1

Use the -buildfile option. For e.g.

$ cd /some/other/directory/
$ ant -buildfile /path/to/build/file.xml

There are two synonymous options for this, -file and -f. Therefore you can use either of

$ ant -file /path/to/build/file.xml

or

$ ant -f /path/to/build/file.xml