On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 21:14, chris chriss<mr.monkey9...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to append something to the PATH env variable in fedora 10 and
> fedora 11. It doesn't seem to work. (Fedora 8 and 9 work as expected, as
> well as ubuntu with the same versions of ant 1.7.1). My example below should
> echo out the path with "/foo" at the begining. I don't believe it's a bug
> with the version of ant, but how it's interacting with the FC10 and FC11
> environment. Not sure how to track this down. Any help is greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Chris
>
> <project name="test env" default="test" basedir=".">
> <property environment="env"/>
>
> <target name="test">
> <echo> env.PATH=${env.PATH} </echo>
> <exec dir="/" executable="bash" os="Linux" failonerror="true"
> searchpath="true">
> <arg value="--login" />
> <arg value="-c" />
> <env key="PATH" value="/foo:${env.PATH}"/>
> <arg value="echo $PATH" />
> </exec>
> </target>
> </project>
>
You have two misunderstandings here:
1. as to <arg value="something"/>: this will bundle what is in value
in only one argument to the command line. Writing ls -l is not the
same AT ALL than writing "ls -l" (in the second case, bash will answer
that the "ls -l" command does not exist" ;
2. the environment variables are evaluated by the shell, ant WILL NOT
evaluate them. <arg value="$PATH"/> will send a literal $PATH as an
argument. $PATH will NOT be interpolated by ant at all.
The only means of doing what you want is to write a shell script to
echo the value of the PATH environment variable.
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