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Subject: RE: Trailing slash on ANT_HOME in windows
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 11:05:52 -0500 
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There's a turn around on Win2K, that replaces all \" by  \\", but it's not
portable to Win95/98/ME, so cannot really be used in ant.bat. Here's an
extract from oneof our BAT files:

:: replace all the trailing \" by \\" to avoid the java program
:: misunderstanding the command line
set _sysproperties=%_sysproperties:\"=\\"%

Hope this helps. --DD

-----Original Message-----
From: Kieran [mailto:kieran@esperi.demon.co.uk]
Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 9:18 AM
To: Ant Developers List
Subject: Trailing slash on ANT_HOME in windows


Hi,

I installed ant 1.5.1 on a Windows NT 4 box with jsdk 1.3.1 last night.

The ANT_HOME variable had a trailing slash (e:\ant-1.5.1\ actually).
This resulted in the ant.bat file making a call to:

   java.exe -classpath <antclasspath> "-Dant.home=e:\ant-1.5.1\"
   org.apache.tools.ant.Main

and the java binary bugged out, giving the usage message.
Further checking shows that removing the quotes or the trailing
slash around the "-D" results in normal operation.

I did a google, but didn't immediately find info on this.  Later,
I found the following bug, marked FIXED
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1849

The summary seems to be that you can:
1. Allow the trailing slash
2. Allow paths with spaces
or
3. Have 1 and 2, (by adding "\." on each run) but increase the
size of the ANT_HOME variable in Win9x for each run.

Would you guys accept an FAQ entry on this subject?

regards

Kieran


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