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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 21:45:36 -0500
From: Ruby John <rjohn@houston.geoquest.slb.com>
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Ok, the -D input had a typo in it.  It's working now.   Thanks.

"Larry V. Streepy, Jr." wrote:

> I would run ant -debug so you can see exactly how the properties are
> being set and what the resulting exec command is.
>
> I'm assuming that you're invoking ant something like this:
>
> ant -Dsome.path=/some/path -Dsome.value=some_value
>
> Correct?
>
> Ruby John wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to integrate ant with our proprietary tools which I intend to
> > call from the ant build.xml.
> > I want to specify the work areas to create for fetching source and building
> > as command line arguments to ant.
> > The program that I am <exec>uting is complaining about the invalid
> > character: "{" which it should not be seeing.
> >
> > I am a brand new user so I may not be doing something basic.
> >
> > "Larry V. Streepy, Jr." wrote:
> >
> > > If you're defining both some.path and some.value using -D flags to ant,
> > > then what you wrote should work fine.  Can you be a little more detailed
> > > on what you want to accomplish?
> > >
> > > Ruby John wrote:
> > > >
> > > > How do I get property or path variables to be expanded  when passing
> > > > arguments to a <exec> task?
> > > >
> > > > Seems it is being passed as a literal.
> > > >
> > > > I am giving these as "-D" parameters to ant trying to pass them on to
> > > > another program.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for your help.
> > > >
> > > >     <exec dir="." executable="some.exe">
> > > >       <arg path="${some.path}"/>
> > > >       <arg value="${some.value}"/>
> > > >     </exec>
> > >
> > > --
> > > Larry V. Streepy, Jr.
> > > Chief Technical Officer and VP of Engineering
> > >
> > > Health Language, Inc.  -- "We speak the language of healthcare"
> > >
> > > 970/626-5028 (office)         mailto:streepy@healthlanguage.com
> > > 970/626-4425 (fax)            http://www.healthlanguage.com
>
> --
> Larry V. Streepy, Jr.
> Chief Technical Officer and VP of Engineering
>
> Health Language, Inc.  -- "We speak the language of healthcare"
>
> 970/626-5028 (office)          mailto:streepy@healthlanguage.com
> 970/626-4425 (fax)             http://www.healthlanguage.com

--
Ruby



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