"Morrison, John" wrote:
>
> Hi All.
>
> I've been playing with the build file I've been generating on a new project
> and have a question and a new version for people to destroy ;)
>
> Question/problem. It was decided to recommend that
> build.dir=${tmp.dir}/${project.name}/build Which is fine, under Linux
> tmp.dir = /tmp. Under M$ tmp.dir is also sensible. Under _cygwin_ however,
> tmp.dir also = /tmp ant then can't resolve /tmp to be a cygwin mount (on my
> system) and builds on the root of which ever drive I'm currently using.
> This is annoying. But I can't think of a solution. Ideas?
Under M$, ${tmp.dir} == C:\Temp
Ant is run from the JVM, which has no knowledge of whether it was called from
cygwin or not. All it knows is that it is on a Windows machine. This should
be consistent. The only way around this is to change the "ant" scripts to
call Ant with -Dtmp.dir=/cygdrive/c/cygwin/tmp (assuming cygwin is mounted on
the C drive) or -Dtmp.dir=C:\\Temp.
It's a small change, and tmp.dir is not a JVM property.
> I've extended the build.xml file so that if install.dir _isn't_ defined then
> the system displays a 'can't do' message. What do people think?
I think a project should define a default install dir that can be overridden
by the user's .ant.properties file.
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