Nested buildfiles with Nant.

[Nigel Currie]

Hi all,

I'm having a problem with <nant> tasks to build sub-projects into an
overall solution. I have the following directory structure:

JobManagerSolut ion
|_
| JobManager
|_
JobManagerContr oller

where the overall build file is in JobManagerSolut ion and the
sub-project build files are in JobManager and JobManagerContr ol. This
is the JobmanagerSolut ion build file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="JobManage r" default="build" basedir=".">
<target name="build" description="Cl ean and build entire solution.">
<nant buildfile="JobM anager/JobManager.buil d" target="clean"
failonerror="fa lse" />
<nant buildfile="JobM anager/JobManager.buil d" />
<nant buildfile="JobM anagerControl/JobManagerContr ol.build"
target="clean" failonerror="fa lse" />
<nant buildfile="JobM anagerControl/JobManagerContr ol.build" />
</target>
</project>

The problem I'm having is that the basedir of the parent build is
being inherited by JobManager and JobManagerContr ol, and so the paths
are all wrong. I know ant has a dir attribute which can be used to
determine which basedir the child build will have, but there seems to
be no equivalent in Nant. Also I've tried explicitly setting
inheritall="fal se", but the parent project directory is still used by
the children.

Anyone else come across this?

[Jonathan Cogley]

ni****@nopworld .com (Nigel Currie) wrote in message news:<54******* *************** ****@posting.go ogle.com>...

The problem I'm having is that the basedir of the parent build is
being inherited by JobManager and JobManagerContr ol, and so the paths
are all wrong. I know ant has a dir attribute which can be used to
determine which basedir the child build will have, but there seems to
be no equivalent in Nant. Also I've tried explicitly setting
inheritall="fal se", but the parent project directory is still used by
the children.

Have you tried using ${nant.project. basedir} ?

It appears to be relative to the project build file and will be
correct in your child builds.

HTH,

Jonathan Cogley