If I understand your issue, you have a build.xml file in a common-build
dir, and you want to load properties from files in the common-build
directory, and also from the directory of the build that is referencing
your common build?
I do this in my builds:
build.xml for a given project:
--------------------------
<project name="some-project">
<!-- Load local properties - this must define "common-build.dir"-->
<property file="${basedir}/local.properties"/>
<!-- Define location of common build.xml file -->
<property name="common-build.xml" value="${common-build.dir}/build.xml"/>
<!-- Import the common build file xml file-->
<import file="${common.build.xml}"/>
</project>
common-build.xml, shared by all projects:
--------------------------
<project name="common-build" .....>
<!-- Get directory storing the "common-build" build.xml file -->
<dirname property="common-build.basedir" file="${ant.file.common-build}" />
<!-- Load project-specific build.properties -->
<property file="${basedir}/build.properties"/>
<!-- Load common build.properties -->
<property file="${common-build.basedir}/build.properties />
<!-- Do lots of other stuff here.... -->
</project>
Btw, although it's not perfect (and last time I tried I couldn't get
it to work with ant 1.8), I find the Eclipse Ant debugger very useful,
especially for debugging issues of unset properties.
Mike Shea.
On 10-10-11 12:30 PM, David Sills wrote:
I'm having a real problem with the Include task (unfortunately, it's
hard to search for useful information on this task, as "include" and
"task" are really common on the archive lists). I'm trying to reuse
variables that are set within each separate project in an included Ant
build file outside the projects, but this does not seem to work at all.
In other words, in my build file I start by including the common build
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