Are you running Ant 1.5 (of which the docs online are associated with)?

Also, for your default value - set that *after* <condition> otherwise it
will never be set to anything but "windows".  Remember - properties are
immutable!

    Erik

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vineet Chaoji" <chaoji@roguewave.com>
To: <ant-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 6:50 PM
Subject: Conditional processing in Ant


> Hi,
>
> I want to set a variable based on some conditions.
>
> <! This is the default -->
> <property name="os" value="windows"/>
> <condition property="os" value="sun"> <os name="SunOS"/> </condition>
> This does not seem to work. I get the error
> Class org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.condition.Os doesn't support the
"name"
> attribute.
> Why should this happen when the Ant manual says that name attribute is
> supported?
> Is there a workaround?
> Thanks,
> Vineet
>
>
>
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