basedir returning the canonical rather than absolute directory?

[Jon Skeet <Jo...@clearswift.com>]

Hi folks,

I'm using ${basedir} to work out where to write files to (I navigate
around a bit). Unfortunately, if I'm working within a symlinked
directory, basedir ends up being the canonical directory rather than the
symlinked one. Sample project:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>

<project target="test">

  <target name="test">
    <echo>${basedir}</echo>
  </target>

</project>

Run this from a symlinked directory, and you see the canonicalised name.
Is there any way of suppressing this behaviour?

Environment: Linux (Fedora Core 3), Ant 1.6.5, Java 1.5

Jon


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