Splitting Source and Class Code

[Tony Collins]

Just wondering id someone could help me with sourcepaths
I have the directory structure
classes
src
sampleproject
db
and am trying to split the source and class files
If I use
javac -d classes src/sampleproject/db/*.java
the files are compiled to the classes directory but under src.
I tried
javac -d classes -sourcepath src sampleproject/db/*.java
which I expected to work but my java files could not be found.
Also tried some varations with classpath but got lost.
Any ideas
Could anyone point out a fundemental error I'm making
Cheers Tony

[Tony Collins]

Just clear up the structure of my directories structure
src---->sampleproject---->db contains java source
classes->

[Michael Morris]

Try this:
javac -sourcepath src/sampleproject/db/ -d classes *.java
Make sure that the directory classes exists and that both source and class directories are on the same mounted root.

[Tony Collins]

No Luck with that. Still get error: cannot read *.java
The files are there and I'm calling javac from the directory above classes and src.
Does javac work in some strange way or am I missing something?

[Michael Morris]

I'm having the same problem. If I use a sourcepath javac doesn't seem to be able to locate the source files. Maybe someone else knows something about this?

[Maulin Vasavada]

hi Tony,
i tried following,
i have a dir hierarchy as,
HOME/test1/test2/test.java
HOME/test3
i write following command,
javac -d test3 test1/test2/*.java
and it creats test.class in test3 directory...
thats what u want right?
also, u r not using any Packages right? because if u have package src for each .java file then it WILL create the src directory in the classes and then put all class files there...
regards
maulin

[Tony Collins]

Cheers my packaging is the problem
My package was src.sampleproject.db
hence the confusion