Just ran this with my recent change and you get
BUILD FAILED
F:\test\build.xml:29: Property ${pattern2} has not been set
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, 6 December 2000 22:39
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Expansion in includes
>
>
> At 11:44 6/12/00 +0100, you wrote:
> >Peter Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >>>Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\test_for_pete.xml"
> >>
> >> Yep - that one works ... but the above doesn't ;)
> >
> >Sorry Pete, that must be a bug in your build file, maybe a typo or
> >something. The ${} expansion doesn't depend on the task, it
> happens in
> >ProjectHelper.configure - for all elements except project and target.
>
> Hmm - can for the life of me see the bug. Heres a little
> snippet showing
> that <include name="${pattern2}"/> isn't exapanded (as
> it matches a
> file with name ${pattern2}) but I still can't see what is
> wrong with the
> build file. Will get back to you thou as there has been a few
> messages on
> ant-user concerning this and I always just assumed it was a
> "feature" ;)
>
> ----------------------
>
> <project default="run" basedir=".">
>
> <target name="set-properties">
> <property name="fromdir" value="test-for-pete" />
> <property name="todir" value="test-for-pete-dest" />
> <property name="pattern" value="dir1/**" />
> </target>
>
> <target name="prepare-stage" depends="set-properties">
> <mkdir dir="${fromdir}/dir1/dir2" />
> <mkdir dir="${fromdir}/dir3/dir4" />
> <touch file="${fromdir}/dir1/dir2/A.txt" />
> <touch file="${fromdir}/dir3/dir4/A.txt" />
> <touch file="${fromdir}/$${pattern2}" />
> <mkdir dir="${todir}" />
> </target>
>
> <target name="run" depends="prepare-stage">
> <copy todir="${todir}">
> <fileset dir="${fromdir}">
> <include name="${pattern}" />
> </fileset>
> </copy>
> </target>
>
> <target name="run-jar" depends="prepare-stage">
> <jar jarfile="${todir}/blah.jar" basedir="${fromdir}">
> <include name="${pattern2}"/>
> <include name="dir1/dir2/A.txt"/>
> </jar>
> </target>
>
> <target name="clean" depends="set-properties">
> <delete dir="${fromdir}" />
> <delete dir="${todir}" />
> </target>
> </project>
> Cheers,
>
> Pete
>
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