Hi,
I tried to build tomcat 4 today and it has some problems finding the
servlet API.
It defines in the top level build.xml file
<property name="servletapi.home" value="../jakarta-servletapi-4/dist"/>
It then calls a build file in catalina
<ant dir="./catalina" target="all"/>
Now, in catalina, the property is also defined
<property name="servletapi.home"
value="../../jakarta-servletapi-4/dist"/>
Now, obviously, that will not be overridden, and the build fails - at least
for me. I'm not sure if I have missed something, or whether I'm not
building it the right way but it suggested some ideas to me
1. inheritAll flag is a good thing
2. Perhaps, we should have a mode for the property task to resolve a path
<property name="servletapi.home" path="../jakarta-servletapi-4/dist"/>
This would resolve the relative file to an absolute path, so it can be
passed to subbuilds and still work.
Thoughts?
Conor
