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Kristian Waagan commented on DERBY-4548:
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Just so I don't misunderstand, is this something you cannot do with the ant
-propertyfile command line option?
Or do you want to change this "once and for all" for a given checked out source
tree?
And if you need to do it per tree, does it work to simply edit the one line
above in build.xml?
> would like an alternative location for ant.properties
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>
> Key: DERBY-4548
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4548
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Build tools
> Affects Versions: 10.0.2.2, 10.1.3.3, 10.2.2.1, 10.3.3.1, 10.4.2.1,
> 10.5.3.1, 10.6.0.0
> Reporter: Myrna van Lunteren
>
> The current build.xml directs ant to look for a file ant.properties in
> user.home.
> This can get confusing when you have multiple versions on the same machine.
> I've worked around this in the past by pointing ant at other directories with
> -Duser.home=..., but it would be easier to have another place set up - I
> don't really like changing user.home.
> We could add another line to build.xml, e.g., for trunk's current build.xml:
> @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
> <!-- Set Properties -->
> <!-- User settings -->
> + <property file="ant.properties"/>
> <property file="${user.home}/ant.properties"/>
> <!-- Set property lib dir -->
> <property name="properties.dir" value="tools/ant/properties"/>
> This would make ant look first for ant.properties in the same directory as
> the top level build.xml, and secondly for the one in user.home.
> If the community agrees this would be ok, I'd like to make this change and
> backport it all the way to 10.0.
> By having an additional place we'd not cause incompatibilities to other build
> processes (except if someone has put an ant.properties file in the top of the
> checked out tree).
> If we do this, I think it's up to the developers to ensure that there's not 2
> ant.properties files that are conflicting.
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