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Created attachment 108813 [details] Current test script It is desirable to be able to run a build of NetBeans even when the source tree is read-only. The plan is to be able to do this by passing -Dnb.build.dir=/what/ever/path when running Ant; all build products will be placed in that directory. http://wiki.netbeans.org/ExternalBinaries is a special case; */external/*.* files need to be in their normal locations. Generally the download-selected-extbins target would have already been run as part of producing the complete source tree.
Some initial changes (enough to run: ant -f core.startup/build.xml) merged in core-main #c9515b3d5232.
More changes (enough to build cluster.config=platform) merged in core-main #6a94a74271ec.
Integrated into 'main-golden' Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/74cc4b69c8e4 User: Jesse Glick <jglick@netbeans.org> Log: #199286: generic changes to build to an external dir. Currently fails in applemenu/eawtstub.
Integrated into 'main-golden' Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/6a94a74271ec User: Jesse Glick <jglick@netbeans.org> Log: #199286 fixes
Integrated into 'main-golden' Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/c169ce8e2e55 User: Jesse Glick <jglick@netbeans.org> Log: #199286 follow-up: interpret ${nbantext.jar} in e.g. core.osgi/nbproject/project.properties.
Integrated into 'main-golden' Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/4f6c03af16cd User: Tomas Hurka <thurka@netbeans.org> Log: bugfix #199286 - build lib.profiler module to an external directory
Is this still a priority? If so, need to pick a cluster config to test and probably set up a Hudson job for it.
We can build majority of NetBeans sources when they are read-only. No need for further work.
OK. Open blocking issues if you need more.