Apache ANT 清单类路径文字

Question

I have an ANT build that compiles my Java project and builds a jar. An ANT target creates a manifest classpath for the jar. Everything works great.

Now, I would like to add a period '.' to the beginning of the manifest classpath so that the runtime working directory is on the classpath. How do I do that using manifestclasspath ?

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My manifestclasspath example:

    <manifestclasspath property="foobar.manifest.classpath" jarfile="whocares.jar">
      <classpath >

        <pathelement path="."/> 
          <!-- :-( adds the working directory of the build. -->

        <pathelement location="lib/some.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="lib/someother.jar"/>
        <fileset dir="${foobar.lib.dir}">
           <include name="**/*.jar" />
         </fileset>
      </classpath>
    </manifestclasspath>

<pathelement path="."/> adds the working directory of the build to my manifest classpath which is not what I want. I just want a period.

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This is what I want the jar classpath to look like:

Class-Path: . lib/some.jar lib/someother.jar lib/blah.blah.blah.blah.b
lah.blah.jar /lib/and-on-and-on.jar

The key thing being the ' . ' as the first item in the classpath.

How to I make ANT add the literal ' . ' to the manifest class path?

Answer 1

Couldn't you just prepend manually:

<property name="theRealManifestClasspath" value=". ${foobar.manifest.classpath}"/>