project's output directory cannot be set to absolute path
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Key: MNG-3646
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3646
Project: Maven 2
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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