[jira] Commented: (MNG-1958) we need a var that always points to the root direcotry in multi module builds

["Prasad Kashyap (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

    [ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-1958?page=comments#action_59330 ] 

Prasad Kashyap commented on MNG-1958:
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Oh, I'm waiting for something like this too. This seems like an absolute necessity.

> we need a var that always points to the root direcotry in multi module builds
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>
>          Key: MNG-1958
>          URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-1958
>      Project: Maven 2
>         Type: Improvement

>     Reporter: Mark Proctor
>      Fix For: 2.1

>
>
> ${basedir} always points to the local module. There are cases, when having a local relative repository, when it would be usefull to have a var that always pointed to the root project, ${rootdir}.
> In such a case you may want to think of having the names ${rootdir} ${moduledir}

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