On 2/27/07, David Carson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We have a build environment where we build a 'shadow' of our source
tree consisting of symbolic links to the real source tree. The actual
build takes place in this shadow.
When I run ant in this shadow, it reads the main .mxml file using the
symlink. However, it figures out that the .mxml is a symlink, follows
that link to the real file, and the resulting output files (such as
.cache files) are written there (or so my theory goes). I have
replaced the symlink with a real copy of the file and the output ends
up in the shadow, so my theory seems to be correct.
I want all output files in the shadow, so I don't want ant to follow
the symlink to determine where to write output. Is this possible?
Not at the moment.
Java is unaware of symbolic links and follows them without
informing applications. One can
use a hack of checking if the absolute path of the file
is the same as the canonical path to check if a file
is a symbolic link. This however fails for certain files.
Ant has some tasks that do that, however <delete>
is not one of them.
There is an open bugzilla request/bug report to
enable <delete> to do this.
see:
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16406
Peter
Thanks,
David
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