On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Will Stranathan wrote:
> Agreed on both - like I said, temportary (and ugly) solutions.
>
> Incidentally, I just discovered that Ant will read system properties
> properly, so instead of setting a targetPathSeparator for the first
> issue, I managed to make it work with ${file.separator}.
I was hoping that ant would flip the anything that looked like
a path into the ${file.separator} automatically. I think this
is how it normally works so I'm not sure why it's not working
for the path to a script that is to be executed?
jvz.
> Will Stranathan
>
> Jason van Zyl wrote:
>
> >
> > On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Will Stranathan wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I don't like them too much - they're not very elegant, but I have some
> >> fixes for a coupld of issues on the build-project script for a project
> >> under the TDK.
> >>
> >> 1) On Windows NT or 2000, the <exec> task in Ant tries to call a literal
> >> ../src\sql\create-database.bat.
> >>
> >> I *think* this is an Ant issue and the CORRECT fix would be to fix
> >> things in Ant.
> >>
> >> However, a workaround is to set a targetPathSeparator in
> >> [appname].properties to \\ on Windows, then change the <exec> task in
> >> build-project.xml to read something like:
> >> <exec
> >>
>executable="..${targetPathSeparator}src${targetPathSeparator}sql${targetPathSeparator}${script}"/>
> >
> >
> > I would rather find a better way to deal with this and I'm sure someone
> > has already dealt with this issue. We should deal with it in Ant,
> > there are already a couple of platform specific things that I
> > would like to get rid of. I would really prefer not to add another
> > one.
> >
> >
> >> The problem with this is that %{outputDirectory} was used previously. I
> >> figured since it was set in the section in [appname].properties in the
> >> area underneath You should NOT have to edit anything underneath here,
> >> that it would be OKAY as a temporary solution to hard-code the same path
> >> into the build-project.xml.
> >
> >
> >> 2) On Windows, \n's (CRLF's) are treated as 2 characters, so the chop
> >> commands in the Torque templates are not actually chopping the trailing
> >> comma.
> >>
> >> Under build/bin/torque/templates, I created a windows directory and a
> >> unix directory. I copied all the existing structure into those
> >> directories, and modified the templates in the windows directory to chop
> >> one extra character. Then, in build-project.xml, I changed all the
> >> vtorque tasks that generate SQL to use ${templatePath}/${targetPlatform}
> >> for the templatePath.
> >
> >
> > -1
> >
> > This has already been fixed and tested. And having two directories
> > of templates would be a loathsome maintenance problem. The chop
> > has been fixed and Martin has tested it under windows.
> >
> >
> >> Again, I'm not really sure I like the idea of having to keep separate
> >> templates for Windows and Unix. But as a temporary solution, it's
> >> functional.
> >
> >
> >
> >> I have these solutions available, but don't necessarily want to check
> >> them in, because they're really kludges, not real fixes.
> >
> >
> > The double set of templates you definitely shouldn't check in. But
> > if you can actually find a way to deal with the execution of
> > scripts properly that would very much be appreciated. I'm sure
> > there must be something in the Ant archives dealing with the
> > problem you're finding.
> >
> > jvz.
> >
> >
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