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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:26:19 +1000
From: Paul King <paulk@asert.com.au>
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This is probably enough to reproduce it:

<project>
   <target name="foo">
     <java classname="org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher" fork="true">
       <classpath path="${java.class.path}"/>
       <arg value="-Dbar=${bar}"/>
     </java>
   </target>
</project>

Cheers, Paul.

On 15/12/2010 7:55 PM, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> On 2010-12-15, Paul King wrote:
>
>> After a little more testing, one thing I did notice was an
>> apparent stricter treatment of property expansion.
>> With 1.8.1, having an arg to a forked java task like this:
>
>> <arg value="-DskipFetch=${skipFetch}"/>
>
>> was happily ignored if skipFetch wasn't defined.
>> With 1.8.2, we now get a failed build with reason:
>
>> Property skipFetch was circularly defined.
>
>> The fix was to add a default property defn but it seems
>> like such a behavior change in a minor update release
>> should warrant an entry in the WHATSNEW at least?
>
> I don't think this a conscious change but rather a side effect of a
> change somewhere else.  But it must be more complex than that, I don't
> get a warning like yours with
>
> <project>
>      <target name="foo">
>        <echo>${x}</echo>
>      </target>
> </project>
>
> Stefan
>
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