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Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 13:20:37 -0500
From: "M. Erik Husby" <mhusby@genome.wi.mit.edu>
Organization: Whitehead Institute Center for Genome Research
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Subject: Re: Figure out why spec. env var gets unset when gets to wrapped
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Try the echoproperties task to find out what all the properties are set 
to. That should show you
any that are case sensitive.

Karr, David wrote:

>Actually, I was mistaken on one point here.  I'm finding that the
>embedded ant script doesn't even have a value for "${env.JAVA_HOME}".
>I'm using an "echo" task to try to print out a string containing envvar
>references, and I can't seem to find any that work.  I tried
>"${env.PATH}" also.
>
>This may not matter, but I noticed an odd statement in the documentation
>for the "property" task, wrt the "environment" attribute.  It says:
>
>--------------
>Note also that properties are case sensitive, even if the environment
>variables on your operating system are not, e.g. it will be ${env.Path}
>not ${env.PATH} on Windows 2000.
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>What does that mean?  Just for grins, I tried changing my test "echo"
>call to reference "${env.Path}" instead of "${env.PATH}", but it still
>just echoes "${env.Path}" (not the value of "$PATH").
>
>I'm not certain exactly what version of ant they have embedded, but the
>manifest of the "ant.jar" says "Created-By: Ant 1.4".
>
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Karr, David
>>
>>I have a situation with an ant script that is called from a java class
>>(apparently), which is called from a DOS "cmd" script.  I can tell
>>exactly what the cmd script is doing, but it executes a jar file with
>>code that I cannot see, which eventually executes an ant script.  I
>>don't think it's "execing" ant, but probably calling the
>>"ant.Main.main()" method directly (because I put print statements in
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>all
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>>the "ant" scripts that I could find.
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>>In the batch file, just before "call"ing java, I print out the value
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>of
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>>a particular environment variable.  It's value is fine.  Inside the
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>ant
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>>script, however, when I reference "${env.<varname>}", it just prints
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>out
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>>that string, which tells me the variable is unset at that point.  At
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>the
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>>same point, I also print out the value of "${env.JAVA_HOME}", and that
>>value is fine.
>>
>>Does anyone have any clue what could be going wrong here?
>>
>>Not that it matters, but these scripts are part of the WebLogic 7.0SP2
>>distribution.
>>
>>Although I have JDK 1.4.1 installed on my system, the WebLogic
>>infrastructure forces its scripts to use its own embedded copy of JDK
>>1.3.1.
>>
>>I'm on Windows XPSP1.
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