From c2838fbcebb50ffff4b1a173a61751e08ddd9c9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Bodewig
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:15:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] I think this is telling the truth now (modulo
allowNativeBasedir), but does anybody understand it?
git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@689849 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
docs/manual/CoreTasks/ant.html | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/ant.html b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/ant.html
index 72c51bbb9..8a12dce3b 100644
--- a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/ant.html
+++ b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/ant.html
@@ -286,6 +286,12 @@ targets so specified, in the order specified.
be the value specified on the command line - no matter how deeply
nested into layers of build files the task may be.
+The samae happens if the basedir is specified as a
+ nested <property>
of an <ant>
+ task. The basedir of build files started at deeper levels will be
+ set to the specified value of the property element unless the
+ corresponding Ant tasks set the dir attribute explicitly.
+
Examples
<ant antfile="subproject/subbuild.xml" target="compile"/>