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

[Ben Hearsum]

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On 12/21/10 12:19 PM, Amber Yust wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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>
>         <mailto: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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>         with Google Apps:
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