[m1] trouble with relative paths and dist:prepare-src-filesystem

[Wendy Smoak <ws...@apache.org>]

I'm having trouble with relative paths for source code.  Whatever constructs
the path to the source code for compilation is able to deal with the
relative path... but not dist:prepare-src-filesystem.

Is there a way to "convert" maven.src.dir into an absolute path at build
time?  Here's what's happening:

Project directory structure:
shale/
     build/
          project.xml
          core-library/
                project.xml
                project.properties
          other-sub-project/
      core-library/
          src/

The build files live under 'build' in a directory structure that reflects
what I wish the actual project looked like.  Since I can't rearrange the
project, [have to live with an existing Ant build] this was suggested by
another developer and is working well except for the empty source
distributions.

So, core-library/project.properties has:
maven.src.dir=../../core-library/src

which properly backs up from core-library to build to shale and then down to
the 'actual' core-library/src.  And all is well *if* you run 'dist' from
build/core-library.

But when you use the reactor to execute 'dist' on each sub-project from 
'build', this part of maven-dist-plugin's plugin.jelly does not see the 
source code:

    <!-- Copy Source -->
    <util:available file="${maven.src.dir}">
      <ant:copy todir="${maven.dist.src.assembly.dir}/src">
        <ant:fileset dir="${maven.src.dir}" />
      </ant:copy>
    </util:available>

I suspect that it's starting from 'build' instead of 'build/core-library'
and so is not getting to the right place.  Does anyone see an easy
workaround for this?

Thanks,
-- 
Wendy Smoak



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