"Does anybody know what's the actual use case for overriding the basedir of the sub-build called with <ant>?"
Does this question assume that if you want to call another ant task from within another file using you should be using <subant>? If not, then desiring to have the basedir reflect the file that contains the target seems like an extremely common occurrence. Actually, I was kind of wondering about the overlap of <ant> and <subant> behaviour. Preventing over-riding the basedir of the sub-build in <ant> would certainly make people use <subant> when that behaviour was desired. alan -----Original Message----- From: Dominique Devienne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 7:08 AM To: 'Ant Developers List' Subject: RE: basedir not set corretly in subant task... > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dominique Devienne wrote: > >>From: Alan Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >>I have a master build file in Project that uses the Ant task to call > >>targets in slave build files in the directories below it (tools, server > >>and client). One of these slave build files (Tools) uses Subant to call > >>build files dynamically in directories below it. However, in this > >>scenario the baseDirectory is not set correctly and remains as the Tools > >>directory. > >> > >>This is confirmed by the fact that all runs perfectly well if I run 'ant > >>build' directly from the Tools directory. It's only running it from > >>Project that causes the failure. > >> > >>Does anyone know a workaround to this problem? > > > > It may be a bug indeed!? > > > > But a possible work around would to not use <ant> from the master > > build, but <subant> as well, or use <ant> is such a way that you > > do not override the basedir of the Tools build. > > > > The problem might be the interaction of <ant> + <subant>. --DD > > Interesting...I've been seeing the same thing, but thought it was > something of mine, not a real bug. Now I am not so sure. I've never seen the problem myself, but probably because I never override the basedir when using <ant>, and I made <subant> explicitly not do it. I don't think I want to investigate it too much either, 'cause I don't use it ;-) Does anybody know what's the actual use case for overriding the basedir of the sub-build called with <ant>? I've never really understood why this was possible, and always thought it to be a sticky point with most users. I steer clear of <ant>'s basedir-override mechanism myself, just to save me grief. How are people taking advantage of it? And is it worth the trouble it --DD --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======= Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information of Symyx Technologies, Inc. that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted, privileged and/or protected work product, and is meant solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please contact the sender immediately, permanently delete the original and any copies of this email and any attachments thereto. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
