thanks it works.It was my callant.bat which was
screwing the issue.
thanks a bunch
hari
--- "Vittoria, Felice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hari,
>
> Your test.xml worked for me.
>
> I did the following: C:\Temp>ant -buildfile
> test.xml -Dprop1=zzzz
> -Dprop2=aaaa
>
> It's output was:
>
> Buildfile: test.xml
>
> Myproperty:
> [echo] prop1 is : zzzz
> [echo] prop2 is : aaaa
>
> BUILD SUCCESSFUL
>
> Total time: 2 seconds
>
>
> Felice
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hari Ramasubbu
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 3:52 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: ant -D option
>
>
> Still i cant get the second property set from the
> command line.
>
> this what i get on the command prompt.
>
> C:\build>callant -buildfile test.xml -Dprop1=zzzz
> -Dprop2=aaaa
> Buildfile: test.xml
>
> Myproperty:
> [echo] prop1 is : zzzz
> [echo] prop2 is : ${prop2}
>
> BUILD SUCCESSFUL
>
> Total time: 0 seconds
> -------------------------------------
> this is the test build file i wrote
>
> <project name="test" default="Myproperty"
> basedir=".">
> <target name="Myproperty">
> <echo>prop1 is : ${prop1} </echo>
> <echo>prop2 is : ${prop2} </echo>
> </target>
> </project>
>
> thanks
> hari
>
