On 2011-10-24, twiddle-dee12 wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm not a particularly strong user of ant so please bear with me. Is there a
> way of getting a property in a property file treated as a value rather than
> a location? For example, I have the following:
> build.property:
> mytest.dir="/tmp/jon"
Are the quotes around /tmp/jon a typo? You don't need quotes in
property files.
> <property file="build.property" />
> .
> <target name="fred">
> <mkdir dir="${mytest.dir}" />
> </target>
> The directory ${mytest.dir} will be created where I am running the ant
> script from
This should not happen. What is the literal value of ${mytest.dir} when
you <echo> it? Since the value starts with a / Ant will know it is an
absolute path and things should work as you expect them.
Stefan
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