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From: Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@apache.org>
To: user@ant.apache.org
Subject: Re: One Ant buildfile calling its subdir buildfile,
 how to change the base dir?
References: <1326312356056-5137885.post@n5.nabble.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:09:09 +0100
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On 2012-01-11, xsli2 wrote:

>         <echo message="sub base dir=${basedir}" />
> 	<target name="MyTest">
> 	    <junit>
> 	      <classpath refid="project.classpath" />
> 	      <formatter type="brief" usefile="false" />
> 	      <test name="A.B.C.MyTest" />
> 	    </junit>
> 	</target>
> Inside MyTest.java, I added this print out:
>         final String currentDir = new File(".").getAbsolutePath();
>         System.out.println("currentDir=" + currentDir);

Ant's basedir and the running Java process' current working directory
are not the same thing.  When you use an <ant> task you only change the
basedir but not the current working directory.  To do that, you'd have
to fork the Java/JUnit process so it is running in a fresh Java VM.

Stefan

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