Hello Oliver,
on mac, because mac is a UNIX like system,
<property name="properties-path"
location="/acme/servlet/messages.properties" />
gets expanded to /acme/servlet/messages.properties
because of the leading slash, ant thinks that /acme/servlet/messages.properties
is an absolute path and should not be resolved.
In fact your error is to use the attribute location instead of value when you
define a relative path.
Maybe the behavior of ant is a surprise to you but it is working as expected
from the Ant's developers.
Regards,
Antoine
Oliver Schrenk wrote:
I solved my problem by using two properties, one for "file" and one for
"tofile"
I wonder though why the original approach works on Mac platform but not on
windows. There are different two behaviours:
1.MAC: multiple properties in "tofile" are first resolved, concatenated and
then converted to a path using basedir
2.WINDOWS: multiple properties in "tofile" are each converted to a path
against basedir, then concatenated and again converted to a path using
basedir
While I can understand the error, there has to be consistency along all
platforms. The more I think about it, the moreI think of it as a bug
2010/3/3 Antoine Levy Lambert <anto...@gmx.de>
Oliver Schrenk wrote:
Here is an excerpt from the build file:
<project name="Project" default="preview" basedir=".">
<property name="build" location="build" />
<property name="classes" location="${build}/classes" />
<property name="properties-path"
location="/acme/servlet/messages.properties" />
<!-- snip -->
<target name="compile" depends="init" description="compile the source ">
<!-- Next line is line 86 -->
<copy file="${properties-path}" tofile="${classes}${properties-path}" />
<!-- snip -->
</target>
<!-- snip -->
</project>
...
Is this a known issue, expected behavior or just bland misuse of
properties
on my part?
change just this line
<property name="properties-path"
value="/acme/servlet/messages.properties" />
when you use the <property location=""/> idiom, the property is converted
to an absolute path. ${classes} is also an absolute path.
Best regards
Oliver Schrenk
Regards,
Antoine
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