Re: Problem with fileset having members containing absolute path names

2005-03-15 Thread Peter Reilly
Holger Rauch wrote: Hi Peter! Thanks a lot for your quick reply! On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Peter Reilly wrote: One can have a top-level fileset on unix. What happens on Windows? Do I have to use some other value for dir there? There is no top-level directory on windows. Each file system has i

Re: Problem with fileset having members containing absolute path names

2005-03-15 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi Peter! Thanks a lot for your quick reply! On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Peter Reilly wrote: > One can have a top-level fileset on unix. What happens on Windows? Do I have to use some other value for dir there? > [...) > However, the filename specs in the includes still need to be relative > so they

Re: Problem with fileset having members containing absolute path names

2005-03-15 Thread Peter Reilly
One can have a top-level fileset on unix. However, the filename specs in the includes still need to be relative so they cannot include a leading directory separator. files: ${files.converted} files2: ${files2.converted} outputs: top: [echo] files: etc/passwd [echo]

Re: Problem with fileset having members containing absolute path names

2005-03-15 Thread Kristian Perkins
I've never used a top level fileset before, didn't think you could do that. I would use a which contained the fileset. Holger Rauch wrote: Hi! I've run into a problem using filesets whose members contain absolute path names. The following short build script illustrates the problem. My ques

Problem with fileset having members containing absolute path names

2005-03-15 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! I've run into a problem using filesets whose members contain absolute path names. The following short build script illustrates the problem. My questions are: Why is the property files.converted (supposed to hold the fileset's contents) empty even though the files actually exist on my system?