PDE headless build - repoBaseLocation not including while compiling

Question

I have an ant script to build my feature (PDE Headless build). My feature is having dependency on a external repo which is present in my local system (c:/folderx/repoBase).
To compile my feature against this external repo i have provided the values for repoBaseLocation and transformedRepoLocation as below
repoBaseLocation = c:/folderx/repoBase transformedRepoLocation=${buildDirectory}/transformedRepos
When the "pde-build" target executes, the transformed repo's are present in the "${buildDirectory}/transformedRepos" directory, but the compilation fails with the following error - "The method methodX() from the type Classx refers to the missing type ExternalClass".
where - Classx is present in my feature. ExternalClass is the class on which Classx is dependent.
The external repo folder contains the folders - binary, plugins, features and artifacts.jar, content.jar
And my "pde-build" target is as below:
<java classname="org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main" fork="true" failonerror="true">
<arg value="-application" />
<arg value="org.eclipse.ant.core.antRunner" />
<arg value="-buildfile" />
<arg value="${eclipseLocation}/plugins/org.eclipse.pde.build_${pdeBuildPluginVersion}/scripts/build.xml" />
<arg value="-Dbuilder=${current.dir}" />
<classpath>
<pathelement location="${eclipseLocation}/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_${equinoxLauncherPluginVersion}.jar" />
</classpath>
</java>
When i build a different feature, which doesn't have dependency on the external repo, the build is successful.
Not sure what i have missed. Can someone help me to resolve this compilation issue?

Answer 1

Do you have a target definition file (.target extension)?
I use target definition file and and I can configure there local repos, containing artifacts.jar , content.jar like yours and repos located at update sites, like http://download.eclipse.org/releases/luna.