The "." in the basedir attribute is relative to the buildfile itself, not
the current directory.
You could access that via ${user.dir} :
<project basedir=".">
<echo>BaseDir: ${basedir}</echo>
<echo>UserDir: ${user.dir}</echo>
</project>
You can't set that value as basedir because at the time when basedir is set,
the system properties aren't populates as Ant properties.
(Also I would not do that because can't be sure from where a user is calling
the buildfile with strange site effects ... think of a "ant clean" in your
home dir?)
Jan
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Michael Niemand [mailto:michael.niem...@gmail.com]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 17. April 2013 16:12
> An: user@ant.apache.org
> Betreff: basedir setting not working?
>
> Hi folks,
>
> my basedir setting doesnt seem to work.
>
> I have the same project I check out to two different locations.
>
> in the second project the basedir setting doesnt seem to work.
>
> Here's what I do:
>
> <!-- <project name="ClientKapselTest" default="targets" basedir="./">
> also tried that --> <project name="ClientKapselTest" default="targets"
> >
>
> <!-- ==================== Initialization properties
> =====================
> -->
> <echo message="*** what's considered basedir before setting it:
> ${basedir}"
> />
> <property name="basedir" value="."/>
> <echo message="*** what's considered basedir after setting it:
> ${basedir}"
> />
>
> </project>
>
> The result is always:
>
> [echo] *** what's considered basedir before setting it:
> M:\path\to\A
> [echo] *** what's considered basedir after setting it:
> M:\path\to\A
>
>
> even though I execute the ant-skript in M:\path\to\B
>
>
> I thought basedir is always the path where the build.xml itself
> resides?
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