Difference in Ant task output and -log

Difference in Ant task output and -log

Difference in Ant task output and -log

2005-06-15 - By al.sutton@(protected)

Does anyone know the reason why the behaviour of running

<exec executable="ant" ....>
<arg line="-log filename"/>
</exec>

is different to sepecifying

<ant output="filename" ..../>

in a build file?

The difference I see is that when using the ant task the output of the
sub-build is displayed on the output stream for the main build as well
as being put into the log file, whereas when using the exec I only get
the output sent to the log file.

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Difference in Ant task output and -log