Skip Eclipse validation of build.xml

Question

Hello,

I've followed the steps given in the Android Developer Blog to generate a build.xml for building releases for an Android Application. I need to do a custom compiling so I have overwritten the target compile of the ant_rules_r3.xml as it is said in the generated build.xml.

 <target name="compile" depends="-resource-src, -aidl, -pre-compile" ...

The script works fine and generates the apk, but the problem is that Eclipse shows an error because it cannot find targets -resource-src, -aidl and -pre-compile (which are loaded when executing the script but are not really present on the build.xml). As there are these errors I cannot work with the project in Eclipse.

How can I skip the validation of this single file in Eclipse?

Thanks

Answer 1

I do not know if you can do this for a single file but i think you can disable the validation within the eclipse preferences under Validation.

Answer 2

Kukudas's solution to "Ignore all buildfile problems" does solve the root problem.

However, Eclipse will still detect the buidl.xml as broken and will not allow Ant Builders to call the file. In fact, Eclipse will silently ignore such build steps in your project as if weren't there.