Setting the environment parameter for <property>
doesn't work on Windows.
>From the doc:
http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/manual/CoreTasks/property.html
"This functionality is currently only implemented on select platforms."
Ant immediately throws an exception for the following line.
>From my build.xml
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<property environment="env"/>
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$ ant
Buildfile: build.xml
BUILD FAILED
C:\project\build\build.xml:22: C:\project\build\build.xml:22:
java.lang.String
IndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1
--- Nested Exception ---
C:\project\build\build.xml:22: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException:
String index out of range: -1
--- Nested Exception ---
java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1
at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1503)
at
org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Property.loadEnvironment(Property.java:
248)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Property.execute(Property.java:172)
at
org.apache.tools.ant.ProjectHelper$TaskHandler.finished(ProjectHelper
.java:482)
at
org.apache.tools.ant.ProjectHelper$AbstractHandler.endElement(Project
Helper.java:204)
at com.sun.xml.parser.Parser.maybeElement(Parser.java:1413)
at com.sun.xml.parser.Parser.content(Parser.java:1499)
at com.sun.xml.parser.Parser.maybeElement(Parser.java:1400)
at com.sun.xml.parser.Parser.parseInternal(Parser.java:492)
at com.sun.xml.parser.Parser.parse(Parser.java:284)
at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:155)
at org.apache.tools.ant.ProjectHelper.parse(ProjectHelper.java:117)
at
org.apache.tools.ant.ProjectHelper.configureProject(ProjectHelper.jav
a:85)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:403)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.main(Main.java:149)
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Setup:
Windows 2000
$ ant -version
Ant version 1.3 compiled on March 2 2001
-mark
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List: ant-user
Subject: Re: Using System Environment variables
From: Fabian =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=F6rchen?=
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2001-05-03 16:12:18
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hi
haven't tried on win, but this work on linux:
<property environment="env"/>
${env.JAVA_HOME}
bye
fabian
Perry Hunchak wrote:
>
> Is there any way to use the system environment variables (for windows)
> in the build.xml file ant uses?
>
> I currently use specify my tomcat home by pointing to the file system
> path
>
> example:
> <property name="tomcat.home" value="d:/java/tomcat3.2.1"/>
>
> But I'd like to just use the system environment variable so I could use
> this on different servers
>
> example:
> <property name="tomcat.home" value="Tomcat_Home"/>
>
> Is there any way to do this?
--
Fabian M�rchen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.mybytes.de
