> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, 16 September 2006 6:56 AM
> To: Ant Users List
> Subject: Re: Ant does not read -D properties same way as Java
>
> Vladimir,
>
> As per the Ant manual:
>
> -D<property>=<value> use value for given property
>
> In your case you would want -Dfoo=bar
>
> Please try that and see if it works. I expect that it should.
I don't think that is what he wants - looking at the example he wants to
assign:
property name = 'param'
property value = 'foo=bar'
His problem appears to be that the 'param' property is being assigned to the
value 'foo' instead of 'foo=bar'.
/Steve.
>
> -Dave
>
>
> On 9/15/06, Vladimir Egorov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Ant Users,
> >
> > I have the following trivial build.xml.
> >
> > <project name="test">
> > <echo message="param is ${param}"/>
> > </project>
> >
> > I am trying to pass "foo=bar" as param value
> >
> > ant -Dparam="foo=bar"
> >
> > Unexpectedly, I get:
> >
> > Buildfile: build.xml
> > [echo] param is foo
> >
> > BUILD FAILED
> > Target `bar' does not exist in this project.
> >
> > The same happens if I try to pass param="foo;bar".
> >
> > I tried the same with a trivial java program, and it works
> as expected.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> >
> >
> > Vladimir Egorov
> >
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> > >>http://www.bea.com/beaworld<<
> >
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