[Buildbot-devel] Is it possible to retrieve 'workdir' property directly?

[Amber Yust]

Of course, if you don't need the absolute path, you can just use '.'

~Amber

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Ben Hearsum <bhearsum at mozilla.com> wrote:

> You can also set it as a Builder level property, if you don't need the
> absolute path.
>
>
> On 12/21/10 12:11 PM, Amber Yust wrote:
>
>> Judging from past tickets, it's a "just use SetProperty" kind of thing:
>>
>> http://trac.buildbot.net/ticket/614
>>
>> <http://trac.buildbot.net/ticket/614>~Amber
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Bailey, Darragh <dbailey at hp.com
>> <mailto:dbailey at hp.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>    Trying to setup some builds to be run via buildbot where I have a
>>    number of checkout steps that retreive both the source to be build
>>    and a number of tools to be used in the building process. Basically
>>    ant+ivy.
>>
>>    As part of the compile step I'd like to modify the environment to
>>    set PATH to include the path to the ant startup script and some
>>    additional environment variables that configure ant such as ARG_ARGS
>>    to point to the ivy jar file, and some http options to set the
>>    required http proxy values.
>>
>>    To update the PATH I need to get the workdir on the slave and append
>>    a path to it. For this I've using WithProperties.
>>
>>    Here's what I'm starting with (basic, ignoring any additional
>>    options that I could pass to the jvm running ant)
>>
>>      env={
>>    'PATH': WithProperties("${PATH}:%s/build_tools/ant/core/bin",
>>    "workdir"),
>>    'ANT_HOME': WithProperties("%s/build_tools/ant/core", "workdir"),
>>    'ANT_ARGS': WithProperties("-lib
>>    %s/build_tools/ant/ivy/bin/ivy.jar", "workdir")
>>    }
>>
>>    Right now I'm running into an exception due to workdir not being
>>    defined in the default properties dictionary.
>>
>>    Is there a property, which would point to the work dir on the build
>>    slaves, that can be used in this case, available within buildbot, or
>>    is it a case of go use SetProperty?
>>
>>
>>    --
>>    Regards,
>>    Darragh Bailey
>>
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>> Google Apps. They found a 300% ROI, 38%-56% cost savings, and break-even
>> within 7 months.  Over 3 million businesses have gone Google with Google
>> Apps:
>> an online email calendar, and document program that's accessible from your
>> browser. Read the Forrester report: http://p.sf.net/sfu/googleapps-sfnew
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