Hello, I have found the best thing to do with Windows is define JAVA_HOME in: My Computer/System Properties dialog. Click the Advance Tab Pane and click the button: Environment Variables. Don't do this as Administrator but just as the user you are when you are running Ant at the command-line. HTH
Eric Chamberlain wrote .. > I have a real mystery and cannot find the solution anywhere I have looked > (including the Ant FAQ). > > Summary: When I run Ant, it looks somewhere other than JAVA_HOME for the > java directory. > > I am running Ant on Windows XP to execute a NetBeans-generated build.xml. > > One step I have tried has been to run > > ant -diagnostics > > Which confirms that java.home is located somewhere other than JAVA_HOME (not > even in the same directory tree). > > Here is my question: How can I change the value of java.home for ant? > What .properties file do I have create? Why does ant ignore it if I type > > ant -Djava.home=%JAVA_HOME% -f mybuildfile.xml > > I was expecting to override the java.home there but it didn't happen. > > I am left rather puzzled. > > Eric Chamberlain > Software Engineer > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
