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From: peter reilly <peter.reilly@corvil.com>
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To: Ant Users List <user@ant.apache.org>
Subject: Re: antcall task problems when calling ant from java
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:44:03 +0000
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Looking at:
src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/BuildTestFile.java
one needs to init the project and set the user property ant.file as well:
project.init();
project.setUserProperty( "ant.file" , new File(filename).getAbsolutePath());

Peter

On Thursday 20 November 2003 15:35, Bender, Christopher wrote:
> PS. When I call the same file using the command line ant tool (as opposed
> through java) the build works fine.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bender, Christopher
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 10:26 AM
> To: Ant Users List
> Subject: antcall task problems when calling ant from java
>
>
> Hey,
>
> I have a buildfile that is named something other than build.xml, for
> example, build.20031120.xml.  I then do the following to setup the project:
>
> 	File buildFile = new File(getTempBuildFileLoc());
> 	project.setBaseDir(new File(getResourceDir());
>
> 	ProjectHelper.configureProject(project, buildFile);
>
> 	project.setProperty("homeDir", getAppHome());
>
>
>
> The problem comes when I try and execute the project and ant attempts to
> execute my antcall tasks, it gives the following:
>
> java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\.......\xml\build.xml (The system cannot
> find the file specified)
>
> It seems that when it tries to do the ant call it tries to look for a
> build.xml file for some reason, even though i didnt even invoke the project
> using build.xml.  Is there a property I am forgetting to set?
>
>
>
> thx,
> chris
>
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