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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:23:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Diane Holt <holtdl@yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: Detecting jikes compiler
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--- "Vittoria, Felice" <Felice_Vittoria@bmc.com> wrote:
> Paul,
> 
> My first guess is that you should replace:
> 
> <property environment="system_prop." />
> 
> with 
> 
> <property environment="system_prop" />
> 
> Try that and let us know.   

Even with that fix (which should be made), it still isn't going to work
the way I suspect Paul wants it to. It looks like he wants to search each
of the directories in $PATH (or I guess I should say %PATH% :) for
jikes.exe, which isn't going to happen. The ant.bat script checks to see
if %JIKESPATH% is set, and will set the compiler to jikes if it is -- but
that doesn't actually guarantee that jikes.exe is available, and it means
having to have that var set in your env (which you might not want, and
don't really need in order to use jikes). So I suppose I'd (yet again)
have to recommend picking up the (unofficial) <foreach> task from the mail
archive (sure wish we could agree to just go ahead and commit the thing in
optional).

Diane

> -----Original Message-----
> From: LEVERETT,PAUL (HP-Roseville,ex1) [mailto:paul_leverett@hp.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 12:47 PM
> To: 'ant-user@jakarta.apache.org'
> Subject: Detecting jikes compiler
> 
> 
> I'm trying to detect the Jikes compiler and have the build process use
> it
> only if it's available.  The following setting doesn't seem to work:
> 
> 
> <property environment="system_prop." />
> 
> <target name="check_for_optional_packages">
>   <property name="jikes.compiler"
> value="${system_prop.PATH}/jikes.exe"/>
>   <available file="${jikes.compiler}" property="build.compiler"
> value="jikes"/>
> </target>
> 
> Can anyone point out the problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> Paul


=====
(holtdl@yahoo.com)



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