Hi Carlos,
Thanks for responding. I was under the impression that the dir value in the
ant element would set the basedir property in the build file being
executed. Thus, in the Foo build file, I was hoping that ${basedir}/src
would point to Foo's src directory rather than Bar's...
--
Bryan
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:02 AM, Carlos Alonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well Bryan, I think that the problem here relies on the <antcall> target,
> you are invoking a target that belongs to other ant file, but the basedir
> and further properties belongs to the Bar ant file.To avoid this problem,
> follow the next example:
>
> Substitute both your <ant> and <antcall> tasks with something like this:
> <ant
> antfile="path/to/build.xml"
> dir="basedir for the execution"
> target="target to be executed"
> inheritall="whether you want your invoked build to inherit all
> the declared properties at this point or not"
> >
> <!-- Here you can give the invoked target properties as
> arguments -->
> <property name="name" value="value" />
> <property name="runtime" value="${env.name}"/>
> <property name="nameenvironment" value="${env.name}"/>
> </ant>
>
> Search the ant manual for further information or more detailed information
> about this task.
>
> Regards.
> Carlos
>
> Bryan Richardson escribió:
>
> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm having trouble calling one build file from another. I'm using
>> Eclipse,
>> and I have two projects:
>>
>> Foo
>> Bar
>>
>> Each project has a build.xml file, and the Bar project depends on a jar
>> file
>> generated by the Foo project. The following is the build.xml file for
>> project Foo:
>>
>> <project name="Foo" basedir=".">
>> <description>Build file for Foo project.</description>
>>
>> <property name="src.dir" location="${basedir}/src" />
>> <property name="build.dir" location="${basedir}/build" />
>> <property name="class.dir" location="${basedir}/build/classes" />
>> <property name="dist.dir" location="${basedir}/dist" />
>> <property name="dist.src.dir" location="${basedir}/dist/src" />
>> <property name="lib.dir" location="${basedir}/lib" />
>>
>> <path id="dependency.path">
>> <fileset dir="${lib.dir}" includes="**/*.jar" />
>> </path>
>>
>> <target name="init" depends="clean">
>> <mkdir dir="${class.dir}" />
>> <mkdir dir="${dist.src.dir}" />
>> </target>
>>
>> <target name="clean">
>> <delete dir="${build.dir}" />
>> <delete dir="${dist.dir}" />
>> </target>
>>
>> <target name="compile" depends="init">
>> <javac destdir="${class.dir}" classpathref="dependency.path"
>> debug="on">
>> <src path="${src.dir}" />
>> </javac>
>> </target>
>>
>> <target name="archive" depends="compile">
>> <jar destfile="${dist.dir}/foo.jar" basedir="${class.dir}" />
>> </target>
>> </project>
>>
>> The following is the build.xml file for project Bar:
>>
>> <project name="Bar" basedir=".">
>> <description>Build file for Bar project.</description>
>>
>> <property name="src.dir" location="${basedir}/src" />
>> <property name="build.dir" location="${basedir}/build" />
>> <property name="class.dir" location="${basedir}/build/classes" />
>> <property name="dist.dir" location="${basedir}/dist" />
>> <property name="dist.src.dir" location="${basedir}/dist/src" />
>> <property name="lib.dir" location="${basedir}/lib" />
>>
>> <path id="dependency.path">
>> <fileset dir="${lib.dir}" includes="**/*.jar" />
>> </path>
>>
>> <target name="init" depends="clean">
>> <mkdir dir="${class.dir}" />
>> <mkdir dir="${dist.src.dir}" />
>> </target>
>>
>> <target name="clean">
>> <delete dir="${build.dir}" />
>> <delete dir="${dist.dir}" />
>> </target>
>>
>> <target name="archive-all">
>> <ant dir="../Foo" target="archive" />
>>
>> <antcall target="archive" />
>> </target>
>>
>> <target name="compile" depends="init">
>> <copy file="../Foo/dist/foo.jar" todir="lib" />
>> <javac destdir="${class.dir}" classpathref="dependency.path"
>> debug="on">
>> <src path="${src.dir}" />
>> </javac>
>> </target>
>>
>> <target name="archive" depends="compile">
>> <jar destfile="${dist.dir}/bar.jar" basedir="${class.dir}" >
>> <manifest>
>> <attribute name="Class-Path" value="lib/foo.jar" />
>> </manifest>
>> </jar>
>> </target>
>> </project>
>>
>> The problem occurs when the Bar project's build.xml calls the Foo
>> project's
>> build.xml file in the archive-all target. I get an error in the Foo
>> project's build.xml file in the compile target. When I run the Bar
>> project's build.xml file through Eclipse's debugger with a break point at
>> the javac element in the Foo project's build.xml file, I notice that all
>> of
>> the properties in the Foo project's build.xml file are referencing the Bar
>> project's path... I checked the basedir property for the Foo project's
>> build.xml file to make sure it was being overrided with the dir attribute
>> of
>> the ant element in the Bar project's build.xml file and it is. However,
>> when I look at the properties defined in the Foo project's build.xml file
>> in
>> the debugger (src.dir, etc) I notice that they are referencing directories
>> in the Bar project and not the Foo project ("${basedir}/src" for example
>> doesn't seem to be working).
>>
>> After all that, can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Let me know if I
>> need to clarify anything... :)
>>
>> --
>> Thanks!
>> Bryan
>>
>>
>>
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