1gant(1)                     General Commands Manual                    gant(1)
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NAME

6       gant - A build framework based on scripting Ant task using Groovy.
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SYNOPSIS

10       gant [options] [target [target2 [target3] ...]]
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DESCRIPTION

14       gant  is  a  tool  for  working  with Ant tasks but using Groovy as the
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17       By default it takes information from  build.gant  which  describes  the
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21        -c,--usecache
22              Whether to cache the generated class and perform modified checks
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28        -f,--file <build-file>
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34        -l,--gantlib <library>
35              A directory that contains classes to be used as extra Gant  mod‐
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53        -C, --cachedir <cache-file>
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57              Define  <name>  to have value <value>.  Creates a variable named
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AUTHOR

75       Gant  and  this manpage written by Russel Winder <russel.winder@concer‐
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80Russel Winder                     2008-05-24                           gant(1)
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