how to set a dir with ant

[miguel lisboa]

at some point my dir looks like:
agilejava
sis exercicios

actually i'm running ant from inside exercicios and want to tell ant to get
sis package, but this doesnt work:

 
<property name="sis" value="..\" />
 
<path id ="classpath">

<pathelement location="${junitJar}" />

<pathelement location="${build.dir}" />

<pathelement location="${sis}" />
 

Can someone pls help me?

TiA

[Carol Enderlin]

miguel,

What doesn't work? What kind of error are you getting? What are you using that path in? Have you looked at verbose output (-v)?

[miguel lisboa]

i get:
package sis.report does not exist
but it does exist.I cant reach that package; normally i'd do:
..\
but doesnt work and tried some other combinations but cant indicate, in the classpath, the right path...

with -v i get:
[javac] File to be compiled:
[javac] C:\javas\AgileJava\exercicios\util\StringUtil.java
[javac] C:\javas\AgileJava\exercicios\util\StringUtil.java:5: package sis.report does not exist

i want to reach the package sis that lies inside C:\javas\agilejava

i'm running ant from
C:\javas\AgileJava\exercicios

BTW thanks for helping

[miguel lisboa]

i guess its better to post my build.xml file:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
 

<project name="exerc�cios" default="junitgui" basedir=".">
 
<property name="junitJar" value="\junit3.8.1\junit.jar" />

<property name="src.dir" value="${basedir}" />

<property name="build.dir" value="${basedir}\classes" />

<property name="sis" value="..\" />



<path id ="classpath">

<pathelement location="${junitJar}" />

<pathelement location="${build.dir}" />

<pathelement location="${sis}" />

</path>



<target name="init">

<mkdir dir="${build.dir}" />

</target>



<target name="build" depends="init" description="build all">

<javac

srcdir="${src.dir}" destdir="${build.dir}"

source="1.5"

deprecation="on" debug="on" optimize="off" includes="**">

<classpath refid="classpath" />

</javac>

</target>



<target name="junitgui" depends="build" description="run junit gui">

<java classname="junit.awtui.TestRunner" fork="yes">

<arg value="AllTests" />

<classpath refid ="classpath" />

</java>

</target>



<target name="clean">

<delete dir="${build.dir}" />

</target>



<target name="rebuildAll" depends="clean,build" description="rebuild all" />

</project> 

[Carol Enderlin]

Well, it is probably looking in the directory you instructed it to look in, but have you compiled that code first? If you have, wouldn't it be in a classes dir (that's what your destdir is set to for javac in the directory you are working in).

I don't follow your project structure, why don't you create a build file at a higher level and take care of the dependencies?

[miguel lisboa]

Hi again, Carol

Well, it is probably looking in the directory you instructed it to look in, but have you compiled that code first? If you have, wouldn't it be in a classes dir

so instead i made:

 <property name="sis" value="..\classes\" /> 

and worked!!
thanks a lot

[Carol Enderlin]

Hi again miguel,

Glad to hear it worked.