On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Jesse Glick wrote:
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> Can you think of a decent compromise? Perhaps an attribute
> basedir="srcdir1" to <ant> to explicitly override the subproject's
> basedir, with 'dir' meaning only "directory of the ant script"? Or can
> subprojects use variable substitution in their 'basedir' attribute? Or
> make the subproject's basedir set according to its wishes relative to
> its containing directory, if <ant> has no 'dir' attribute (but then the
> behavior is different with dir=".")? Also in your case you could simply
> pass in a ${topdir} or similar variable to the subproject, to be used in
> all paths, but of course this is less convenient than basedir.
