> -----Original Message-----
> From: Berin Loritsch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 18 October 2001 2:13 pm
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Build.xml standardization
>
>
> "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.
Ah. Good idea! Should we suggest this to the ant team or is
somebody from there already monitoring us...?
> > 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.
I was thinking more for the projects which don't install. The mods I made
to the build.xml file mean that, if a install.dir isn't defined *anywhere*
(note it's still in there, just commented out), the build.xml already has
the functionality to say the project can't do an (un)installation.
<shrug/> I thought it was a good idea ;)
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