To be precise there are many processes:

01: $ant
02: <project>
03:     <java> / <exec>
04: </project>


environment(01) --> java-Ant(01) --> external process (03)

You can only pass environment variables along this road, not in the other
direction.


Jan


>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>Von: Ninju Bohra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>Gesendet: Freitag, 2. November 2007 07:06
>An: Ant Users List
>Betreff: Re: How to set an environment variable through Ant?
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>Hello,
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>For ANT task that spawn a seperate process (<javac> and <exec>
>come to mind) there are attributes to allow you define 
>'environment variable' that will be applied to the process 
>that the task will run in.
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>The ANT Manual for these two tasks are quite helpful
>
>Hope that helps,
>
>Ninju
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>----- Original Message ----
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>From: Saladin Sharif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>To: user@ant.apache.org
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>Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2007 7:51:48 PM
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>Subject: How to set an environment variable through Ant?
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> I am just curious whether there is a clean way to set 
>environment  variables through ANT.  You see, before running 
>my Ant script, I am  currently setting my environment 
>variables through a shell script, and I aslo  have a batch 
>script version for when running Ant on windows.  I would  like 
>to get rid of the shell script / batch script, and just set 
>those  environment variables directly in my Ant script 
>(build.xml).  Is this  something possible with Ant?
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>Thanks in advance,
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>-Saladin
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