How to specify base dir then we run ant like ant -f somedir/dir/build.xml

ant, java

Solution

Use -D to override the basedir property:

ant -Dbasedir=`pwd` -f path/to/build.xml

The use of `pwd` is a Linux-only thing, but you can always put the absolute path of the current directory there if you're on another platform.

I don't think there's a way to do this inside build.xml, short of re-executing ant with the `ant` task.

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