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Ant doesn't evaluate the -Dproperty from the commandline when setting the
baseDir.

It sets the base dir to literally ${rootDir}

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Ventimiglia, David wrote:

> Maybe I'm missing something, but why doesn't ant -Dbasedir=C:\plymediadev
> work?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: robert@elastica.com [mailto:robert@elastica.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 11:04 AM
> To: Samuel R Listopad II
> Cc: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org; robert@elastica.com
> Subject: RE: make -D in ant?
> 
> 
> What can we expect? It would definately be nice to be able to pass in 
> properties from the command line especially for baseDir or for that
> matter anything else. I don't want to keep these references in the 
> .xml file.
> 
> On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Samuel R Listopad II wrote:
> 
> > > <project name="plymedia" basedir="${rootDir}">
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > > ant -DrootDir=C:\plymediadev
> > >
> > > I want to hide all references to absolute paths outside of
> > > the build file.
> > >
> > > when I do this it doesn't evaluate $rootDir as I would expect.
> > 
> > Ok this is what I was getting at with my last post (albeit poorly).  Ant
> 1.2
> > only seems
> > to evaluate properties at creation time.  However I would propose a more
> > dynamic system
> > where properties were recursively evaluated whenever used.
> > 
> > i.e. in this case when ${basedir} used it would lookup basedir in the
> hash,
> > get the value
> > of ${rootDir},  and the try to extract rootDir from the hashmap and find
> > C:\plymediadev.
> > 
> > Its a simple change,  I was just wondering if it had already been thought
> of
> > and done/shot down
> > for some glaring reason I could not see.
> > 
> > Sam
> > 
>