Re: [eclipselink-users] Location of build.properties

[Tom Ware <tom.ware@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Apparently ant has issues finding user.home in some environments.  Other options 
include:

- making changes in the build.properties in the trunk directory (and, for 
committers, being careful not to check it in)
- Specifying the overrides as system properties

-Tom

cowwoc wrote:
> Odd. I tried that (placing build.properties in the home dir). Overriding
> junit.lib didn't work for me.
>
> Gili
>
>
> mobrien wrote:
> > Gili,
> > 	See trunk>build.xml and the build.properties precedence order.
> >
> > <project name="trunk" default="build" basedir=".">
> >     <dirname  property="trunk.build.location" file="${ant.file.trunk}"/>
> > ...
> >     <!-- Allows a user to overide certain user specific properties. -->
> >     <property file="${user.home}/build.properties"/>
> > ...
> >     <property file="./build.properties"/>
> >
> >
> > 	If you override properties in your own build.properties file you will not
> > need to modify the secondary one in the trunk.
> >
> > 	The <user-home> ie: in windows
> > 		"C:\Documents and Settings\mfobrien\build.properties
> > 		where I am overriding jdbc.driver.jar as
> >
> > 		jdbc.driver.jar=c:/view_w34/jlib/ojdbc14_102.jar
> >
> > 	You may also want to override database settings in your own
> > test.properties as well for things like the following
> > 	
> > db.platform=org.eclipse.persistence.platform.database.oracle.OraclePlatform
> >
> > 	thank you
> > 	/michael
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cowwoc [mailto:cowwoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 13:48
> > To: eclipselink-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [eclipselink-users] Location of build.properties
> >
> >
> >
> > http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Building reads "Define a
> > build.properties
> > file in your user home directory" but in fact build.properties is found at
> > the repository root directory not the user's home directory. Can someone
> > please update this?
> >
> > I tried build.properties in my home directory and it did nothing.
> >
> > Gili
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