Here are a couple of ideas:

*use a wrapper script to set a system environment variable, which you can 
access with <property env="..."/>
*write a custom task that can make the determination in Java code
*use <script> to write custom logic (don't know if this is realistic - I 
don't really use <script>)

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Jeffrey E. Care ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
WebSphere v7 Release Engineer
WebSphere Build Tooling Lead (Project Mantis)


"Marion, Patrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/13/2005 
08:06:06 PM:

> Problem:
>    have ant tell me whether I am running on a 64 bit architecture.
> 
> I thought the solution was:
> 
>    check for the value of the "os.arch" property.
> 
> Unfortunately, if I can make something out of the value returned on 
Windows
> ("amd64) I can't on Linux (it returns "i386" which is identical to the 
one
> on a 32 bit machine); solaris sparc just returns "sparc".  The only os.*
> properties which seem to be available to ant at start time seem to be:
> "version", "name", and "arch".
> 
> Any suggestion on how to better handle this? 
> 
> Thanks.
> P.
> 
> 
> 
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