Application of settings.gradle to Gradle build with non-standard build name

Question

I have an application that is built with a build script named linuxApp.gradle. We have specified in settings.gradle

rootProject.name = "JobThreader"

As long as the root project folder is also named "JobThreader", when we execute the installApp task from the application plugin, the application is built to

JobThreader/build/install/JobThreader

However, if the root project folder is any other name, like "workspace" in the case of Jenkins, then the application is built to

workspace/build/install/workspace

We have verified this behavior both on our Linux Jenkins server and our local Windows machine.

We have attempted the following commands with identical results

gradlew clean installApp -b linuxApp.gradle

gradlew clean installApp -b linuxApp.gradle -c settings.gradle

How can we get the application to install to workspace/build/install/JobThreader in our Jenkins example?

Answer 1

When -b is used, any settings script will be ignored. (-b can be useful for experimentation, but isn't typically used for real builds.) When -b is not used and a settings script is found or passed explicitly via -c, it's up to that settings script to configure the names of build scripts. For example:

rootProject.buildFileName = "linuxApp.gradle"