Yes there is: ${parent.basedir} should be the one you need....
Be carefull though, if your child-project are deeper than one level, you
should use ${parent.parent.basedir} (and so on).
Isn't it possible for you to make a dependency of some kind to the
tools-project? Or build your tools as maven-plugins, that way you won't need
the variables!
On Tuesday 11 September 2007 09:22, Huang, Yan wrote:
> I have a "tools" directory under "parent" and the children projects need
> to invoke commands under "tools" during the phase of code generation. I
> want to provide an absolute path to that "${parent}/tools" so that each
> child can invoke from there.
>
> Or is there other better way to solve it? is there really a ${parent}
> property tag in maven?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wayne Fay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 6:52 PM
> To: Maven Users List
> Subject: Re: Is there a property for parent directory?
>
> Why do you need to do this? There may be a better way to do the same
> thing that does not involve a ${parent} tag at all.
>
> Wayne
>
> On 9/10/07, Huang, Yan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a property or way to get parent directory in maven? Let's say
>
> I
>
> > have this structure of my projects:
> >
> > Parent
> >
> > |____ pom.xml
> > |____ child project 1
> > |
> > | |___ pom.xml
> > |
> > |____ child project 2
> > |
> > |___ pom.xml
> >
> > Child project 1 and project 2 will inherit from parent 1. Now, when
> > building children projects, is there a property in maven that can be
> > used to refer to the actual directory of parent during build time? I
> > know the notation of ${basedir}/../ might work in most cases, but what
> > if child project is in another level down, i.e.
> >
> > Parent
> >
> > |____ pom.xml
> > |____ children folder 1
> > |
> > | |___ child project 1
> > | |
> > | | |___ pom.xml
> > | |
> > | |___ child project 2
> > | |
> > | |___ pom.xml
> > |
> > |____ child project 3
> > |
> > |___ pom.xml
> >
> > Thanks
> > Yan
> >
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