Re: in rule - absolute path

Calmar wrote:

> when I have a rule like that
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> :rule %.html : htmlbegin.part=20
>                %.part=20
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> and when the files to build include some paths:
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> files =3D file1
>         dir1/dir2/file2
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> it seems aap looks for some dir1/dir2/htmlbegin.part file, so in
> the same dir where file2 is in.
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> I would like to use always the same htmlbegin.part file, so I
> would need to put there a absolute path like:
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> :rule %.html : /var/www/oldtimer/htmlbegin.part
>                %.part
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> That seems to work, but it's probably not really a really good
> way to do it.
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> Is there a simple aap variable representing the path where the
> main.aap script is actually in or so? Or how would I do that in
> a good way?

I don't think we have a variable for that.  You can use this:

	cwd =3D `os.getcwd()`

	:rule %.html : $cwd/htmlbegin.part %.part=20

A recipe is always interpreted with the current directory set to that of
the recipe, thus this should work.

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