Re: classpath from external jars relative to environment variable

[Robert La Ferla]

On Aug 18, 2006, at 11:54 AM, Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote:

Wrong, property values expand other property values (if the props  
are defined).

e.g.
  <property name="myclasspath" value=".:${env. MYPROJECT}/endorsed/
xercesImpl.jar:${env. MYPROJECT}/endorsed/jdom.jar"/>

You type env. MYPROJECT

should be env.MYPROJECT

without space between env. and MYPROJECT


That was a typo.  The problem still occurs without the space.  I know  
they expand other property values but have you tested it to see if  
they expand environment variables specifically?

<property environment="env"/>
<property name="myclasspath" value=".:${env.MYPROJECT}/endorsed/ 
xercesImpl.jar:${env.MYPROJECT}/endorsed/jdom.jar"/>



I also tried :

<path id="myclasspath">
   <pathelement path=".:${env. MYPROJECT}/endorsed/xercesImpl.jar:$
{env. MYPROJECT}/endorsed/jdom.jar"/>
</path>

better

<path id="myclasspath">
    <pathelement location=".">
    <pathelement location="${env.MYPROJECT}/endorsed/xercesImpl.jar"/>
    <pathelement location="{env.MYPROJECT}/endorsed/jdom.jar"/>
 </path>



I actually had "." in their too.  I think my problem may actually be  
related to running ant under XCode (gui tool) because I was able to  
run it fine from a terminal shell.