D'oh, I should have guessed the src.dir would emit as it did ;)
How about taking the dirname task on src.dir and echoing that?
<dirname file="${src.dir}" property="src.dir.name"/>
<echo message = "Absolute path: ${src.dir.name}"/>
If memory serves, when I kick off my <javac> its usually from a "root"
directory and not a relative one.
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011, Ego wrote:
Woah, thanks Scot! That's a FAST reply, and a good one I think.
If nothing else, it helped me to rule out some possible causes of error.
To answer your question, I intend to collect my buildfiles in a separate folder, sibling
to the projects root, and that's the current dir when I fire "ant". I see your
point - I thought myself this could be a potential source of troubles.
Besides, tasks in my buildfile like <copy>, <delete>, <jar> and <mkdir> are
interpreting correctly the path specified in ${src.dir}, even when ant is issued from a different location,
like I do. Even more strange, <javac> itself points to the same path of the above tasks:
<echo message = "Looking for source files in ${src.dir}"/>
returns
Looking for source files in ../projects/modules/src
Nevertheless the task fails.
I'm starting to doubt the effectiveness of the <include> selectors or worse, a design bug in the <javac> Ant task when it comes to resolve absolute paths.
Anyway, even placing build.xml in the root dir (editing build.properties accordingly) and setting
project's property
basedir="."
hasn't helped to fix the problem, so there must be some other explanation.
Bye
Johnny
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