This seems like a good place for me to delurk.
I recently downloaded Ant 1.3 to UN*X box, to use it in conjunction
with a webapp I'm doing under Tomcat (so I'm the audience targeted by
the default configuration). Here's where things get wierd: I do a
build with the provided build.xml and the prepare step informs me that
[mkdir] Created dir:
/Users/mickey/apps/java/jakarta/tomcat-3.2.1/webapps/lims/${tomcat.home}/webapps/lims
It seems that ${tomcat.home} is being correctly expanded, then
"webapps/lims" properly added, and then the literal string
"${tomcat.home}" and the "webapps/lims" added (inappropriately) again.
I fixed it thusly:
<property name="app.name" value="lims"/>
<!--
BROKEN? Yields /correct/path/webapps/lims/${tomcat.home}/webapps/lims
<property name="deploy.home" value="${tomcat.home}/webapps/${app.name}"/>
-->
<property name="deploy.home"
value="/Users/mickey/apps/java/jakarta/tomcat-3.2.1/ webapps/${app.name}"/>
<property name="dist.home" value="${deploy.home}"/>
Given that I haven't seen this mentioned on the list archives (not
that they were easy to search :-) I'm guessing that it's something in
my configuration - since I didn't have time to break the installation
- but I can't figure out what, since it seems rather straightforward.
Help would be appreciated. I have a work-around, but no understanding.
Michael
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