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

[Ben Hearsum]

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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> an online email calendar, and document program that's accessible from your
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