[Anthill] Missing build logs

[Andy Levy]

Thanks.  Calling this parameter the "source root" or "project working
directory" makes it a lot easier to wrap my head around.  My builds
are working now, and I've got my documentation updated to reflect this
discovery.

On 2/22/06, Varban <vvv at urbancode.com> wrote:
> I think the answer is yes.
> Anthill will take the project root directory from the repository adapter (in
> this case wherever the svn adapter points to as the working directory) and
> then execute any scripts in that directory. This way your build scripts
> location is relative to the project root (source root might be a more
> appropriate term) and thus independent from the environment Anthill is
> running in.
>
> Regards,
> Varban
>
>
> On Wednesday 22 February 2006 11:33, Andy Levy wrote:
> > Varban,
> >
> > Answers inline
> >
> > On 2/22/06, Varban <vvv at urbancode.com> wrote:
> > > Hi Andy,
> > >
> > > first question is was there anything in the build logs before?
> >
> > When I configure these projects to build in a directory immediately
> > below c:\anthill, I get logs.
> >
> > > Also have you changed any logging settings for the Anthill instance and
> > > for the Tomcat instance?
> >
> > I haven't touched any log settings that I'm aware of.
> >
> > > Are you sure that when the logs are empty there actually was a build or
> > > for some reason the build aborted (error of some sort) and that is why
> > > there is no output?
> >
> > I wasn't 100% sure.  But you started me doubting myself, so I looked
> > closer at the tomcat logs and saw that I was duplicating directories.
> >
> > In my "problem" project, my SVN working directory was
> > \appname\environment.   I changed it to appname\environment.  I then
> > changed ant.build.script from \environment\build.xml to just build.xml
> > - and it built successfully, with logs.  I'm guessing, then, that the
> > "project root directory" referred to in the note above
> > ant.build.script is the working directory specified for the SVN
> > adapter.  Is that right?
> >
> > I'll update my other projects accordingly and see how that works.
> >
> > > Regards,
> > > Varban
> > >
> > > On Wednesday 22 February 2006 08:37, Andy Levy wrote:
> > > > I'm managing the build of several instances of the same application
> > > > via Anthill (it's a web app, and we run both our testing environments
> > > > off the same Tomcat instance).  It seems that in my quest to keep my
> > > > anthill working directory clean and well-structured, I've lost the
> > > > ability to capture the output of my Ant script.
> > > >
> > > > I want to keep all my build directories in a single subdirectory of
> > > > anthill.  So my tree looks like this:
> > > >
> > > > C:\anthill
> > > > ---builds
> > > > ------dev
> > > > ------beta
> > > >
> > > > I then point repository.subversion.work.dir to builds\dev for one
> > > > instance, and at builds\beta for the other.  I point
> > > > anthill.build.script at dev\build.xml and beta\build.xml,
> > > > respectively.
> > > >
> > > > When I build my projects, the -rev.log files are appropriately
> > > > populated with the Subversion log history since the previous build.
> > > > However, the -build.log files are empty.  0 bytes.  I haven't been
> > > > able to try sending email from my desktop Anthill installation due to
> > > > configuration of our SMTP host.
> > > >
> > > > Is this a limitation of Anthill, or have I missed something in the
> > > > configuration?
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> > -George S. Patton
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