Hi Reshma, you have to use ${src.dir}
just because you declare a property as <property name="src.dir" value="src"/> doesn't mean "create a property "src" pointing to a directory. you could have called your property "src.foo" Cheers, Roland. > -----Message d'origine----- > De : Reshma Pai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Envoyé : mercredi 27 novembre 2002 11:30 > À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Objet : New comer to ant > > > Hi All, > > > In the ant build file displayed below, when i am trying to > reference the src > directory declared with the name src.dir, it say ${src.dir} > directory not > found. Why is this happening so, to my understanding, ${src} > should obtain > the value associated with that name. > > <?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'ISO-8859-1'?> > <project name="Learn_Ant" default="compile" > basedir="/home1/reshma/Learn_Build"> > <target name="init"> > <property name="src.dir" value="src"/> > </target> > <target name="compile" > > <javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="."/> > <echo message="${build.dir}"/> > </target> > </project> > > Thanks in advance, > Reshma Pai > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>