Okay, we're defintely using the following version, downloaded from the
following URL:

http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/ant/release/v1.1/bin/jakarta-ant.zip

I have not installed the optional.jar, but I'll try that.
I inspected the "main" class, and sure enought, there is no version
switch, which means we have a really-really old version! We downloaded
the zip, expanded it the started a rebuild using the bootstrap and so forth.

Do we need to grab a certain weekly build? Do we need to acquire,
install, and configure CVS? So far, this is really the first 
use of the apache stuff (other than binary releases of web-server
with JServ) and we'll probably get around to installing all the 
related tools and stuff for open source projects soon, then again,
we're busy, so maybe we should just live with the fix I made to
use the appropriate multicplicity of $$ until the changes get posted to
the ant release?



-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Landon 
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 11:42 AM
To: 'ant-user@jakarta.apache.org'
Subject: RE: How to use $ in a ANT property value


The version of ANT we are using is probably the wrong version: it's the one
we got when
we downloaded the zip file from the releases section of the jakarta apache
ant link a couple
weeks back. The version does not apparently support -version!

Here some hopefully useful output.......


[C:/Jakarta-AntV1.1/bin] pwd
C:/Jakarta-AntV1.1/bin
[C:/Jakarta-AntV1.1/bin] echo $ANT_HOME
C:/jakarta-antV1.1
[C:/Jakarta-AntV1.1/bin] ls -l ${ANT_HOME}/lib/*.jar
-rw-r--r--   1 544      everyone   107769 Jul 17 10:55
C:/jakarta-antV1.1/lib/ant.jar
-rw-r--r--   1 544      everyone   132473 Jul 17 10:55
C:/jakarta-antV1.1/lib/xml.jar
[C:/Jakarta-AntV1.1/bin] ant -version
Unknown arg: -version
ant [options] [target]
Options:
  -help                  print this message
  -quiet                 be extra quiet
  -verbose               be extra verbose
  -logfile <file>        use given file for log
  -buildfile <file>      use given buildfile
  -D<property>=<value>   use value for given property

[C:/Jakarta-AntV1.1/bin] which ant
ant.bat
[C:/Jakarta-AntV1.1/bin] ant -verbose
Buildfile: build.xml does not exist!
[C:/Jakarta-AntV1.1/bin] cat ant
#! /bin/sh

if [ -f $HOME/.antrc ] ; then
  . $HOME/.antrc
fi

if [ "$ANT_HOME" = "" ] ; then
  # try to find ANT
  if [ -d /opt/ant ] ; then
    ANT_HOME=/opt/ant
  fi

  if [ -d ${HOME}/opt/ant ] ; then
    ANT_HOME=${HOME}/opt/ant
  fi

  ## resolve links - $0 may be a link to ant's home
  PRG=$0
  progname=`basename $0`

  while [ -h "$PRG" ] ; do
    ls=`ls -ld "$PRG"`
    link=`expr "$ls" : '.*-> \(.*\)$'`
    if expr "$link" : '.*/.*' > /dev/null; then
        PRG="$link"
    else
        PRG="`dirname $PRG`/$link"
    fi
  done

  ANT_HOME=`dirname "$PRG"`/..

fi

# Allow .antrc to specifiy flags to java cmd
if [ "$JAVACMD" = "" ] ; then
  JAVACMD=java
fi

# Use the original tools.jar if available
if [ ! "$JAVA_HOME" = "" ] ; then
   CLASSPATH=${JAVA_HOME}/lib/tools.jar:$CLASSPATH
   CLASSPATH=${JAVA_HOME}/lib/classes.zip:$CLASSPATH
fi


CLASSPATH=${ANT_HOME}/lib/xml.jar:$CLASSPATH
CLASSPATH=${ANT_HOME}/lib/ant.jar:$CLASSPATH
CLASSPATH=${ANT_HOME}/lib/moo.jar:$CLASSPATH
export CLASSPATH

$JAVACMD -Dant.home=${ANT_HOME} org.apache.tools.ant.Main $@

-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:bodewig@bost.de]
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 11:41 PM
To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: Re: How to use $ in a ANT property value


Which version of Ant are you using? For current CVS:

bodewig@sbodewig /tmp >cat > build.xml
<project name="test" default="tryme" basedir=".">
<property name="helper.classes" value="Helper$$1.class:Helper$$2.classs"/>

<target name="tryme">
<echo message="${helper.classes}"/>
</target>
</project>
bodewig@sbodewig /tmp >ant
Buildfile: build.xml

tryme:
Helper$1.class:Helper$2.classs

BUILD SUCCESSFUL

Total time: 0 seconds
bodewig@sbodewig /tmp >ant -version
Ant version 1.2alpha compiled on August 8 2000

I get the expected result - and the code that does the ${} expansion
(and handles the $$ case) didn't change since Ant 1.1 IIRC.

Stefan