Yes, it happens in the creation of the task's path, in Path.addExisting().
If I change the first line of code in this block:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ant/core/trunk/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/Path.java?view=markup
if (f.exists()){
setLocation(f);
} else {
log("dropping " + f + " from path as it doesn't exist",
Project.MSG_VERBOSE);
}
to this:
if (f.exists() || (f.getParentFile().exists() &&
"*".equals(f.getName()))) {
I get the behavior I desire. Maybe this change would create problems for other
usage scenarios, but it would seem unlikely. If so, maybe an attribute to
enable support for java classpath wildcards could be added.
I'll submit a bug report if I don't receive any feedback contrary to my
analysis.
Thanks, Mike
PS - I'm looking for a solution for developers who do not want to use mapped
drives.
-----Original Message-----
From: David Weintraub [mailto:qazw...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 11:26 AM
To: Ant Users List
Subject: Re: Classpath Wildcards
There's one solution: Don't use Windows!
(The above statement was brought to you by Linux Geeks with no Social Life.)
You can't use <fileset> because it actually verifies your includes.
That's no good as you pointed out.
I've tried <pathelement path="*/*"/> and that appears as a literal
when I print it out. However, it could be that <javac> itself is
expanding it before passing it off to the command line.
You may have to use <exec> to get around this issue.
<soapbox MS-mode="spewing">
This is one of the things that really pisses me off about Windows. The
NTFS filesystem can handle somewhere around 32K for the command and
Windows itself can handle command paths that long too. However, the
Windows shell doesn't (at least not as a default!). The actual limit
for both is quite a bit less than 300 characters.
This is especially hard on Java developers who have large nested
directory structures. Heck, the same issue is also found in Window's
own C# environment too. Even worse, if you put your directories under
your "HOME" directory, you are by default placing them under
"C:\Documents and Settings\<userName>", and the user name is usually
the full name of the user. Many developers like placing their working
directories on their desktop which means that the default path for me
is "C:\Documents and Settings\David Weintraub\Desktop" which is almost
50 characters long. That's 20% of the maximum file name size even
before I create my first file.
</soapbox>
When you use "${basedir}" like you're suppose to, you include that 50+
character string in all of your paths!
The solution is to use the root of the drive as your development
directory, or if you can't do that because that's locked down, see if
you can use the DOS subst command to redefine your base directory. For
example:
$ subst X: "C:\Documents and Settings\David Weintraub\Desktop\AntProject"
will now allow me to reference the AntProject directory as just "X:"
Thus, "${basedir}" goes from over 60 character to just two. That may
give you enough space to set the path the standard way.
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Murray, Mike <m...@ptc.com> wrote:
> I'm setting up a classpath for a forked <java>. I understand how Ant
> wildcards work. I was previously using ant wildcards to define the
> classpath, but the cmd line exceeds the windows limit when ${srclib} is
> deep.
>
> <fileset dir="${srclib}">
> <include name="*/*.jar"/>
>
> I want the classpath to include the literal string "wnc/*", which is a
> valid java classpath element. Since I used "pathelement path",
> shouldn't it take this as a literal? I think it does, except that it
> appears to validating it, and throwing it out as non-existent. I would
> expect this validation with "pathelement location", but not "pathelement
> path".
>
> Thanks, Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jan.mate...@rzf.fin-nrw.de [mailto:jan.mate...@rzf.fin-nrw.de]
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 12:02 AM
> To: user@ant.apache.org
> Subject: AW: Classpath Wildcards
>
>>I'm trying to use Java's Classpath wildcards to limit the cmd length on
>>forked java calls.
>>
>> <pathelement path="${srclib}/wnc/*"/>
>
>
> That's not a Java wildcard, it's an Ant wildcard.
> Because <pathelement> is an Ant construct and Java wildcard can only be
> used from the command line.
>
>
>>But, Ant is throwing it out.
>> dropping L:\Windchill\srclib\wnc\* from path as it doesn't exist
>> [java] Executing 'D:\programs\jdk1.6.0_10\jre\bin\java.exe' with
> arguments:
>>Is there any way to do this?
>
>
> Ant doesnt pass all found classfiles to the program - it sets up a
> classloader. Therefore
> it can handle large numbers of files itself.
>
> So use an Ant wildcard:
> <pathelement path="${srclib}/wnc/**"/>
> (add one star ;)
>
> '*' every file in the directory
> '**' every file somewhere under the directory
>
>
> Jan
>
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