Re: Strange property problem

2007-06-05 Thread Steve Loughran
Peter Reilly wrote: On 6/4/07, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ith ant properties are immutable, so what the hell is happening? you are getting burned by the fact that the $ in the macro param is being double expanded. Once in passing to macrodef, and then when being passed to sshexe

Re: Strange property problem

2007-06-04 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi all, This problem was actually to do with the names of the tar file and what the folders were in named inside the tar file - it was not to do with the macro property expansion (which I also thought was the problem) basically the tar was called james-server-binary-next-major (james distro buil

Re: Strange property problem

2007-06-04 Thread Peter Reilly
On 6/4/07, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kevin Jackson wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a weird error caused by a property being wrong 50% of the time > and correct 50% of the time. > > here's the relevant code: > > build.properties > james.version=server-binary-next-major > james.home=/va

Re: Strange property problem

2007-06-04 Thread Steve Loughran
Kevin Jackson wrote: Hi all, I have a weird error caused by a property being wrong 50% of the time and correct 50% of the time. here's the relevant code: build.properties james.version=server-binary-next-major james.home=/var/james james.home.direct=/var/james-${james.version}

Strange property problem

2007-05-31 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi all, I have a weird error caused by a property being wrong 50% of the time and correct 50% of the time. here's the relevant code: build.properties james.version=server-binary-next-major james.home=/var/james james.home.direct=/var/james-${james.version}