RE: Setting basedir seems broken now

[cr...@ratedg.com]

Setting basedir seems broken nowDavid,

I had a problem similar to this, and I was able to resolve it by referencing
the parent directory.  So long as you can guarantee that you will always run
the buildfile from c:\qdsdev\bin (probably through a batch file), you might
be able to use this:
<project name="qds" default="apps" basedir="..">

I can't guarantee that it will work, but I think your base directory will
probably become C:\qdsdev because now...
baseD = "C:\qdsdev\bin\.."
...which should resolve to "C:\qdsdev"

I hope this helps.

--Chris Povirk
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Gardner, David [mailto:david_gardner@mentorg.com]
  Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 2:50 PM
  To: 'ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org'
  Subject: RE: Setting basedir seems broken now



  After a bit more probing...  I'm not sure what is _supposed_ to be
happening, but I can tell you what _is_ happening

  The ProjectHelper class contains the code which sets the basedir.  In my
case, since I'm not setting an environment variable, the code that gets
executed is (line 240):

          project.setBasedir((new File(buildFileParent,
baseDir)).getAbsolutePath());

  And in my case,

          buildFileParent = "C:\qdsdev\bin" (the directory where I'm running
ant)
          baseDir = "c:\qdsdev" (from the build.xml file)

  Now, getAbsolutePath() returns "C:\qdsdev\bin\c:\qdsdev" which is simply
the buildFileParent and baseDir concatenated.

  Then, project.setBasedir() executes the following code:

          setBaseDir(new File(new File(baseD).getCanonicalPath()));

          (baseD = "C:\qdsdev\bin\c:\qdsdev")

  at which time getCanonicalPath throws an IOException

  --

  Again, I don't really know what the intention of the author was here so
I'm not going to propose a fix.  Maybe this helps explain the problem
though.

  Regards,
  David Gardner
  david_gardner@mentor.com



    -----Original Message-----
    From: Gardner, David [mailto:david_gardner@mentorg.com]
    Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 11:41 AM
    To: 'ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org'
    Subject: Setting basedir seems broken now




    I just grabbed the latest (9/7/00) nightly build and I'm having a
problem with setting the basedir.  I have the following line in my
build.xml:

      <project name="qds" default="apps" basedir="c:\qdsdev">

    which was working with earlier releases.  However, now I'm getting the
following error message:

      build.xml:7: Can't set basedir null due to The filename, directory
name, or volume label syntax is incorrect

    I've tried numerous forms for the basedir however I get this error any
time I have a colon in the name.  And when I don't have a colon the path is
always interpreted as relative which is not the desired functionality.

    Any suggestions?

    David Gardner

    P.S. Running under Windows 2000.




    -----Original Message-----
    From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:bodewig@bost.de]
    Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 10:43 AM
    To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org
    Subject: Re: output from the javac built in task



    >>>>> "JT" == Jørn Tage Tyskerud <jo...@iconmedialab.no>

     JT> Is there a way to get feedback per file (although the file
     JT> contains no errors) when using the javac build in task.

    Invoke Ant with the -verbose switch. You will get much more
    information than you ever wanted to see - including which files
    <javac> compiles.

    Stefan