Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> The problem is here:
>
> if (myos.toLowerCase().indexOf("windows") >= 0) {
> --> if (!dir.equals(project.resolveFile(".")))
> command = "cmd /c cd " + dir + " && " + command;
>
> When executing an <ant> task, this sub-Ant gets it's basedir set
> to the place where the build.xml resides and thus
> project.resolveFile(".") returns the name of the subdirectory
> allthough this is not the dir Ant has been called from.
>
> Why is this check there in the first place? Can we savely remove
> the check and everything's fine? Note I'm not too familiar with
> Windows if this sounds like a dumb question.
For starters, cmd doesn't work on 95/98 (so that's a bug).
Worse yet, if you do multiple commands Windows NT/2000 will open up a new
window and you can't capture the output.
I spent quite some time on this, and have yet to find a solution that
works.
- Sam Ruby
