Re: Property not evaluated in project "basedir" attribute

[Stefan Bodewig]

DONNIE HALE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> In my ant command line, I'm setting a property via
> "-dBLDROOT=$BLDROOT" (Korn shell). The project element in the build
> file attempts to set basedir using 'basedir="${BLDROOT}".

Currently Ant won't expand properties in <project> or <target>. A
workaround would be to not define basedir at all and invoke Ant with
-Dbasidr=$BLDROOT as Ant looks for a property named basedir if the
corresponding attribute has not been set.

Stefan