Found it, the "dist.dir" property was set to "dist", it should have been set to
"${basedir}/dir", all other relative dirs had the latter convention, which
explains everything.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Quinten Verheyen
> Sent: 18 April 2005 16:43
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: odd problem when using a build that calls a build w/
> the deploy
> task
>
>
> Hi, ran into something odd:
>
> - buildfile A (build-A.xml) contains deploy task, running the
> task works w/o any problems :
>
> <!-- ... -->
> <target name="deploy" depends="war">
> <deploy url="${tomcat.manager.url}"
> username="${tomcat.manager.username}"
> password="${tomcat.manager.password}"
> war="${dist.dir}/webapp.war"
> path="/${name}"
> update="true" />
> </target>
> <!-- ... -->
>
> Now comes the strange part ...
>
> - buildfile B wants to call A's deploy task, remark : it's
> located in another dir, more specific the dir above, so :
>
> <!-- ... -->
> <target name="master">
> <ant antfile="build-A.xml" target="all" dir="subdir" />
> </target>
> <!-- ... -->
>
> Question : does this work ?
> Answer : Nope, it results in a
> java.io.FileNotFoundException: dist\webapp.war (The system
> cannot find the path specified)
> Question : Why ?
> Answer : Because the deploy task searches for dist in the
> dir of build B.
> Question : Why ?
> Answer : I don't know ... ;-)
>
> It is strange because the deploy task is the only one who has
> a problem with this. In reality build file B is a master
> build file that calls a 'all' target, and buildfile A
> contains the whole standard deployment shabang -> none of
> them fail except this specific task.
>
> I would say it's worth checking out.
>
> Obviously this prob is solved by using an absolute path, but
> it speaks for itself it shouldn't be configured like that.
>
> Any thoughts ?
>
> Kind regards,
> Q
>
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