[jira] Closed: (MNG-3646) project's output directory cannot be set to absolute path

["Brett Porter (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

     [ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3646?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Brett Porter closed MNG-3646.
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       Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
    Fix Version/s:     (was: 2.2.x)

this works for me in 2.2.1

> project's output directory cannot be set to absolute path
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MNG-3646
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3646
>             Project: Maven 2 & 3
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.8
>            Reporter: Ittay Dror
>
> I want to be able to set the output (target) directory to some absolute path outside of the source tree. What I'm trying to do is set <build><directory> to ${output}/${project.artifactId}/${project.groupId}, where 'output' is passed from the command line. 
> Looking at the 2.0.8 code, this is what happens:
> * DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildInternal calls pathTranslator.alignToBaseDirectory( project.getModel(), projectDescriptor.getParentFile() );
> * DefaultPathTranslagor.alignToBaseDirectory calles build.setDirectory,  build.setSourceDirectory and build.setTestSourceDirectory all with calling the method alignToBaseDirectory(String, File) where the string is the current value of the above and File is the base directory
> * alignToBaseDirectory(String, File) calls requiresBaseDirectoryAlignment with the string
> * requiresBaseDirectoryAlignment constructs a File on top of the string and then calls File.isAbsolute to find if the path is absolute
> * since a path in the form of "${something}" is not considered by File to be absolute, alignToBaseDirectory adds basedir to the path.
> So the final result is that passing -Doutput=/tmp results in the output directory being set to something like /home/ittayd/dev/tmp/com.company/artifact which is not what I intended. 
> I can go around this in linux by using '/${output}/${project.artifactId}/${project.groupId}', but this won't work in windows (for two reasons: 1. '/' is not interpreted as a path separator (in Win32FileSystem) and 2. even if it did, it will not allow setting output to 'D:\TEMP')

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