AW: idiom to pass ant command line args to java task?

2005-12-01 Thread Jan.Materne
$0 refers to the first argument. Where is the end? Is $9 the last accessible argument or $10...? Then using that reference must be followed by a split character. ant -- one two eleven $10HelloWorld a) two0HelloWorld b) elevenHelloWorld Printing out multiple arguments with $

Re: idiom to pass ant command line args to java task?

2005-12-01 Thread Dominique Devienne
> If you search the archives you may find more info. > Dominique Devienne (of the Ant PMC) had either (a) a > proposal for, or (b) a version of, Ant, that did this > using imaginary properties ${0}, ${1}, etc. He will > probably have something to say here. :) ;-) Here it is: http://issues.apache

RE: ant not recognizing command line argument

2005-12-01 Thread Ray Tayek
At 04:23 PM 12/1/2005, you wrote: Attached is a little utility... nice program. thanks - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: idiom to pass ant command line args to java task?

2005-12-01 Thread Ray Tayek
At 03:17 PM 12/1/2005, you wrote: If you search the archives you may find more info. Dominique Devienne (of the Ant PMC) had either (a) a proposal for, or (b) a version of, Ant, that did this using imaginary properties ${0}, ${1}, etc. He will probably have something to say here. :) searching

Re: idiom to pass ant command line args to java task?

2005-12-01 Thread Matt Benson
If you search the archives you may find more info. Dominique Devienne (of the Ant PMC) had either (a) a proposal for, or (b) a version of, Ant, that did this using imaginary properties ${0}, ${1}, etc. He will probably have something to say here. :) HTH, Matt --- Ray Tayek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: idiom to pass ant command line args to java task?

2005-12-01 Thread Ivan Ivanov
Hello, you can have several options. 1) Provide the options as the value of one property like this: ant -Dmy.java.program.opts="-opt1 value1 -opt2 value2 -opt3 value3 ..." Then in your build script grab them like this: 2) you can provide the value of each options as a property: ant -Dopt1=

idiom to pass ant command line args to java task?

2005-12-01 Thread Ray Tayek
hi, i would like to say: ant run arg1 arg2 ... and have the run task grab the args and pass them to the task as does anyone have an idiom for doing this? or must i use environment variables or something else? thanks -

Re: removing file from jar

2005-12-01 Thread Mark Eramo
Hi, Check out this link http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jar/ It should help you out. Cheers, Mark Jochen Wurster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/01/2005 04:03 PM Please respond to "Ant Users List" To user@ant.apache.org cc Subject removing file from jar

Re: removing file from jar

2005-12-01 Thread Antoine Levy-Lambert
Hello Jochen, with ant you can do something like Cheers, Antoine Jochen Wurster wrote: >Hi, > >is there a way to remove a file from an existing jar file? Other than using >WinZip ;-) > > >Bye > >Jochen > > > --

removing file from jar

2005-12-01 Thread Jochen Wurster
Hi, is there a way to remove a file from an existing jar file? Other than using WinZip ;-) Bye Jochen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cross-platform portability problem for copy/filterset

2005-12-01 Thread Brown, Carlton
All: A build file that I had developed under Windows started throwing a strange error when I tried to run it on a Linux box. The error is "failed to copy due to null" (not terribly informative). Has anyone seen this before? I saw the question asked on usenet before but no answer was given.

Re: how to (usably) include one JAR in another?

2005-12-01 Thread Thomas L Roche
Tom Roche 11/30/2005 10:35:26 PM: How best to make the task include the JAR's classes, not the JAR itself? Jon Skeet Thu, 01 Dec 2005 08:50:03 GMT >>> Have you tried using ? Tom Roche 12/01/2005 10:57 AM >> > description="Build project.jar"> >> > jarfile="${build.result.fo

Re: ant not recognizing command line argument

2005-12-01 Thread Safak Ökmen
I have taken ant bin path out of the path variable one moment ago, so it is not listed in the set output. Steve Loughran wrote: Safak Ökmen wrote: ANT_HOME was pointing to "D:\programme\ant". I'm sorry. I just don't know what's wrong. I have a command line utility fsum (FastSum) which I tri

Re: ant not recognizing command line argument

2005-12-01 Thread Safak Ökmen
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\WINDOWS\system32>ant Der Befehl "ant" ist entweder falsch geschrieben oder konnte nicht gefunden werden. C:\WINDOWS\system32>ant -version Der Befehl "ant" ist entweder falsch geschrieben oder konnte nicht gefunden

Re: ant not recognizing command line argument

2005-12-01 Thread Steve Loughran
Safak Ökmen wrote: ANT_HOME was pointing to "D:\programme\ant". I'm sorry. I just don't know what's wrong. I have a command line utility fsum (FastSum) which I tried with command line arguments (fsum something.zip something.zip.md5) and it works fine. I think that means cmd is recognizing com

Re: ant not recognizing command line argument

2005-12-01 Thread Safak Ökmen
Also I wonder, why the eclipse ant plugin works fine. Matt Benson wrote: ANT_HOME is used by ant.bat . Which ant.bat is called is dependent upon your Windows system PATH. The very fact that you removed the ANT_HOME variable and received an error message after that makes your PATH settings sus

Re: ant not recognizing command line argument

2005-12-01 Thread Safak Ökmen
If i understood you right, the following should not solve the problem. I removed ANT_HOME and added the complete path D:\programme\ant\bin to the Path variable. I checked it. It is the same problem. Matt Benson wrote: ANT_HOME is used by ant.bat . Which ant.bat is called is dependent upon you

Re: ant not recognizing command line argument

2005-12-01 Thread Matt Benson
ANT_HOME is used by ant.bat . Which ant.bat is called is dependent upon your Windows system PATH. The very fact that you removed the ANT_HOME variable and received an error message after that makes your PATH settings suspect. I personally no longer use ANT_HOME; if you get your PATH set up corre

Re: ant not recognizing command line argument

2005-12-01 Thread Safak Ökmen
ANT_HOME was pointing to "D:\programme\ant". I'm sorry. I just don't know what's wrong. I have a command line utility fsum (FastSum) which I tried with command line arguments (fsum something.zip something.zip.md5) and it works fine. I think that means cmd is recognizing command line argument.

Re: ant not recognizing command line argument

2005-12-01 Thread Matt Benson
That proves that the Java classes in use are those below ANT_HOME, but it still doesn't prove which ant executable is ultimately calling the Java code. --- Safak Ökmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried to identifiy the ant version running by > removing the ANT_HOME > variable. > __ >

Re: ant not recognizing command line argument

2005-12-01 Thread Safak Ökmen
I tried to identifiy the ant version running by removing the ANT_HOME variable. __ D:\programme>ant Der Befehl "ant" ist entweder falsch geschrieben oder konnte nicht gefunden werden. D:\programme>cd ant D:\programme\ant>cd bin D:\programme\ant\bin>ant.bat -debug clean Buildfile: build

RE: ant not recognizing command line argument

2005-12-01 Thread Bozorgdadeh, Afshin
Hi Safak, Could you see if you have the Ant.Home and JavaDir are set and the Java directory is in your Path. It sound like a environment variable/ Path problem. On the command line if you type "set" you should see a list of environment variable Best Regards Afshin Bozorgzadeh When you seek it,

Re: ant not recognizing command line argument

2005-12-01 Thread Nicolas Vervelle
Apparently, ant doesn't care of whatever you put in the commande line. Just a stupid idea: try specifying the extension for the ant script (ant.bat or ant.cmd) ant.bat -debug clean or ant.cmd -debug clean Safak Ökmen wrote: Hi! It is really strange. -debug doesn't work either. Look at thi

Re: ant not recognizing command line argument

2005-12-01 Thread Matt Benson
--- Safak Ökmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Matt, > > here is the output: > > __ > > D:\programme\ant\bin>D:\programme\ant\bin\ant.bat > clean > Buildfile: build.xml > > one: > > BUILD SUCCESSFUL > Total time: 0 seconds > D:\programme\ant\bin> > > ___ > > > Is it po

Re: ant not recognizing command line argument

2005-12-01 Thread Safak Ökmen
Hi Matt, here is the output: __ D:\programme\ant\bin>D:\programme\ant\bin\ant.bat clean Buildfile: build.xml one: BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 0 seconds D:\programme\ant\bin> ___ Is it possibly interacting with the exlipse plugin ant? Safak. Matt Benson wrote: Are yo

RE: ant not recognizing command line argument

2005-12-01 Thread Bill Rich
Here is the debug output from a test run on XP Pro 2002 for the sample build file you sent. C:\TEMP>ant -d clean Apache Ant version 1.6.5 compiled on June 2 2005 Buildfile: build.xml Adding reference: ant.PropertyHelper Detected Java version: 1.4 in: C:\j2sdk1.4.1_05\jre Detected OS: Windows XP Ad

Re: ant not recognizing command line argument

2005-12-01 Thread Matt Benson
Are you the first owner of this box? I would thoroughly investigate the possibility that the ant you installed is not the ant that is being called. Try using full paths when you run ant for a quick check; i.e. D:\programme\ant\bin\ant.bat HTH, Matt --- Safak Ökmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: how to (usably) include one JAR in another?

2005-12-01 Thread Matt Benson
--- Thomas L Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [SNIP] > I tried it, but it just copies: > >description="Build project.jar"> >jarfile="${build.result.folder}/project.jar"> > > > > > > > > value="foo.bar.project"/> > > > > Firs

Re: ant not recognizing command line argument

2005-12-01 Thread Safak Ökmen
Here is another sample: __ D:\programme\ant\bin>ant -debug clean Buildfile: build.xml one: BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 1 second D:\programme\ant\bin>vim build.xml D:\programme\ant\bin>ant -debug Buildfile: build.xml one: BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 0 seconds D:\programme\ant\bin>an

Re: ant not recognizing command line argument

2005-12-01 Thread Safak Ökmen
Hi! It is really strange. -debug doesn't work either. Look at this: __ D:\programme\ant\bin>ant -debug clean Buildfile: build.xml one: BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 1 second __ For this buildfile: __ ant doesn't recognize any command line argument.

Re: how to (usably) include one JAR in another?

2005-12-01 Thread Thomas L Roche
Tom Roche 11/30/2005 10:35:26 PM: >> How to make include the *contents* of another JAR, rather >> than just that JAR file itself? >> I tried >> > description="Build project.jar"> >> > jarfile="${build.result.folder}/project.jar"> >> >> >> >> >> >>

install, list, reload and remove suddenly die

2005-12-01 Thread Patrick De Mazière
Hello, I got recently a very mysterious problem when using ant. Projects I was able to compile, install etc. in the past, now no longer want to be installed, reloaded, listed or removed, and it all happened after a restart of my tomcat server (I did not change any config file of that server i

RE: how to (usably) include one JAR in another?

2005-12-01 Thread Jon Skeet
> How to make include the *contents* of another JAR, > rather than just that JAR file itself? What I mean: Have you tried using ? I haven't used it myself, but given the documentation, it looks like it's what you're after. Jon Clearswift monitors, controls and protects all its messaging traff