After thinking about telling Rygle about deleting build.dep to force a recomp, it occurred to me how kludgey that is. So I added yet another flag to the <cc> task, refreshCache="true/false". Setting this to true will force a regeneration of the cache.

But you say "Hey, I don't want to edit build.xml every time I want to clean the cache!" Fair enough. So I added another property to build.xml, "refresh=false". This value is used in the <cc> task as

refreshCache="${refresh}"

To change this, and force a refresh, merely redefine "refresh" on the command line:

btool -Drefresh=true

You should see this near the top of the output:

overloading property 'refresh' = 'true'

This is a workaround to the problem: how to specify a task-specific parameter on the command line. I need to figure this one out eventually.

By the way, did you know that you can do this? Calling btool this way:

btool -Ddist=c:/inkscape

...sends the completed Inkscape distro directly to c:\inkscape :)

Since btool uses URIs, "" or "/" doesn't matter.

Let me know if you have any problems.

But this is a good example of how btool can be modified, and new Tasks added, to perform whatever build functionality we need.

bob