[news.eclipse.platform] Building ready-to-use RCP product with org.eclip

[Michał Tkacz <mehow.remove@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm following an article at 
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-PDE-Automation/automation.html
as well as a document at 
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/*checkout*/org.eclipse.releng.basebuilder/readme.html?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/html 
trying to setup an automated headless build for my RCP application.
Most of the steps are already working, but I have problems configuring 
packaging step.

Although the documents don't describe product branding, it seems to be 
supported with a "product" property, which I had properly set in my 
build.properties. Unfortunately, during packaging I get 
java.io.EOFException from eclipse.brand task located in generated 
assemble.<my.feature>.win32.win32.x86.xml script. This seems to be 
caused by the fact that eclipse.exe is not copied to the target 
directory (set in root attribute of the task) before the task is executed.

I guess I could just copy it there in one of the customTargets.xml 
targets, but I believe there's already some infrastructure for that in 
the org.eclipse.releng.basebuilder itself.
In particular packaging.properties files that I found in 
org.eclipse.releng.eclipsebuilder project seem to leverage that 
infrastructure. Unfortunately I couldn't find any documentation about 
how to setup it in existing customTargets.xml.

Can anyone please tell me how to do this?

Thanks in advance,

Michal