I have just checked. This is a problem - the ant launcher code does some conversion of file names to URLs. The '#' character is not converted The only work-around (at the moment) is to use symbolic links. I have made a change to ant SVN to fix this.
Peter On 4/19/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I have found that if I specify a -lib option with a path that contains a > hash "#" character, it cannot find the libraries. Without the # > character in the path they can be picked up fine. > > This is not easily avoided in our environment, as we use Synergy for > SCM, which defaults to using # in the path when checking out projects. > This can be changed, but that is not desirable. > > Is this a known bug? Does anyone know of any workarounds? > > Many thanks > > paul > >