On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 21:03, Andy
Stevens<insomniacpeng...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2009/9/8 Francis GALIEGUE <f...@one2team.com>:
>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 08:41, Andy
>> Stevens<insomniacpeng...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is there an easy way to calculate an arbitrary relative path between two
>>> files?
>>> Part of my Ant script copies a default configuration file to a build
>>> folder, in the course of which I modify it (with xmltask) with the
>>> location of some source files. At the moment I'm using <property
>>> location="${src.dir}" .../> to get the absolute path, but I'm curious
>>> whether there's a way to get a relative path instead . Since I know
>>> where it's being copied to, I could just use "../../${src.dir}", but
>>> that's a bit fragile if the build directory changes (which it will do
>>> - locally on my machine I use ${basedir}/build, but on our CI server
>>> it's likely to override this with some other directory).
>>> Ideally, I suppose I'd like to use something like <property
>>> location="${src.dir}" basedir="${build.dir}" .../> Is there anything
>>> like this in one of the "extras" libraries, or some other easy way to
>>> achieve it?
>>
>> You can use ant-contrib's <propertyregex>:
>>
>> <propertyregex property="relativepath"
>> input="${src.dir}" regexp="^${build.dir}/" replace=""/>
>
> Unless I'm missing something, that only works if src.dir is below
> build.dir? Which is unlikely, as build.dir (by default
> ${basedir}/build and its subdirectories) only gets created during the
> build while src.dir (${basedir}/src) already exists...
>
Well, instead of <property location=""> you can use <property
value="">, which will be a relative path to your basedir.
You can then prepend the build.dir property without even using a
regex, like in "${build.dir}/${src.dir}".
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