Design issue with new MS-DOS style path warning?

[Warren Young]

On 1/22/2010 10:23 AM, Eric Vautier wrote:
>
> 	AndroidApp
> 	BUILD FAILED
> 	C:\dev\prj\app4\AndroidApp\build.xml:343: Warning: Could not find file
> 	 C:\cygdrive\c\dev\prj\app4\Common\target\Common.jar to copy.

My first thought when I see things like this isn't "oh, bad idea, DOS 
style paths in Cygwin".  I think "oh, bad idea, absolute paths 
hard-coded into a build system".  That makes it hard to build on any 
other system, because it ranges from difficult to impossible to demand 
that everyone install outside dependencies in the same locations.

There must be a tool you can use to generate the Ant files from 
something higher-level, which discovers the correct paths to use.  That 
tool could also abstract away the difference in path styles.  Something 
like Automake, Bakefile or CMake, but which knows how to create Ant files.

That's where I'd put my effort, anyway.

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