Aha; I see that http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2848 is the root cause. Sigh. Sorry to have wasted people's time.
Best, Laird On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Laird Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've searched the archives and have not found an answer to this question. > > I have a profile whose activation I'd like to trigger based on the > "non-emptiness" of an environment variable. > > When I run mvn help:active-profiles with that environment variable set, it > reports that no profiles are active. > > My settings.xml file, where the profile is defined, looks like this (in > part): > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"; > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; > xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 > > http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd";> > > [stuff snipped here] > > <profiles> > <profile> > <id>Development Server</id> > <activation> > <property> > <name>env.GLASSFISH_HOME</name> > </property> > </activation> > <properties> > <appserver.autodeploy.dir>${env.GLASSFISH_HOME > }/domains/domain1/autodeploy</appserver.autodeploy.dir> > </properties> > </profile> > </profiles> > </settings> > > I followed the example of the maven.apache.org page on build > profiles<http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-profiles.html>, > which says, in part: > * > Note* : Environment variable FOO would be set like env.FOO . > > ...but this only works if I do: > > mvn help:active-profiles -Denv.GLASSFISH_HOME=foobar > > ...i.e. it is treated (by the help:active-profiles plugin, at any rate) as > a regular property, not an environment variable. > > How, if not that way as documented, do I activate a profile based on the > presence of a non-empty environment variable value? > > Thanks, > Laird > > P. S.: The output of mvn --version is below: > > Maven version: 2.0.8 > Java version: 1.6.0_04 > OS name: "windows xp" version: "5.1" arch: "x86" Family: "windows" >
