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http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37694 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary|Calling ant via java does |Calling ant via java sets |not set "basedir" property |"basedir" property to where | |the build file lives - | |undocumented. ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-10-04 11:13 ------- Peter - your build file runs with no problems. The good news: I cannot produce my own problem precisely, as described almost a year ago. So I take the liberty of renaming the bug, from "does not set basedir" to "sets ... - undocumented". I tried the following: I have a directory, with three contents: Firstly, it has a file parent.xml, which looks like this: <project default="call"> <target name="call"> <fail message="ant.home not set." unless="ant.home" /> <property name="sub.builddir" location="." /> <property name="sub.buildfile" location="../subfile.xml" /> <echo>basedir is ${basedir}</echo> <echo>sub.builddir is ${sub.builddir}</echo> <echo>sub.buildfile is ${sub.buildfile}</echo> <java classname="org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher" fork="true" failonerror="true" dir="${sub.builddir}" timeout="4000000" > <classpath> <pathelement location="${ant.home}/lib/ant-launcher.jar"/> </classpath> <arg value="-buildfile"/><arg file="${sub.buildfile}"/> <arg value="callee"/> </java> </target> </project> Secondly, it has a file subfile.xml, which looks like this: <project> <target name="callee"> <echo>basedir is ${basedir}</echo> </target> </project> And finally, that directory has a sub directory "subdir". I change into that sub directory, and call ant -Dbasedir=. -buildfile ../parent.xml I have not found a way to predict, from the documentation, what callee will show as its subdir. Here is what indeed does happen, as of ant 1.6.5 : $ ant -Dbasedir=. -buildfile ../parent.xml Buildfile: ../parent.xml call: [echo] basedir is . [echo] sub.builddir is /home/andreas/radio/comp/ant/antbug/subdir [echo] sub.buildfile is /home/andreas/radio/comp/ant/antbug/subfile.xml [java] Buildfile: /home/andreas/radio/comp/ant/antbug/subfile.xml [java] callee: [java] [echo] basedir is /home/andreas/radio/comp/ant/antbug [java] BUILD SUCCESSFUL [java] Total time: 0 seconds BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 4 seconds So, through the call to <java>, the build's basedir climbed one level up. >From other experiments, it seems that I always get, as the basedir, the directory that contains the sub buildfile. The value I hand down through <java dir=""> seems to be ignored. I don't mind this particular behaviour of ant. But I suggest this behaviour should be documented. -- Configure bugmail: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
