Cloud Foundry for Developers

The compile script

Input arguments:     

• <build_path>
• <cache_path>

Return value:            

• none

The purpose of the compile script is to pull in all the framework/dependencies and, if necessary, perform an actual source compilation or configuration. There are two input arguments. The first is <build_path>, which is a path to a directory holding the application files when a user had performed a cf push. The second parameter, <cache_path>, holds the path to a directory store that holds the assets during the build process. For display feedback to users, text can be output to stdout. 

To get the buildpack's file directory during the staging for any of these scripts, you could use the following bash script: export buildpack_directory=`dirname $(readlink -f ...