Try: <property environment="chooseAnyName" />
<property name="myProperty" value="${chooseAnyName.THE_DOS_ENV_NAME}" /> eg: <property environment="myBuildEnv" /> <property name="my_build_dest" value="${chooseAnyName.BUILD_DEST}" /> where at the cmd line I had "set BUILD_DEST=c:\mybuilddest". Hope this helps. -----Original Message----- From: Kumar L [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 1:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Newbie question Hi I am new new to using ant. I am using the 1.4.1 version of it. I want to know if there is a way of importing the system variables in to the build.xml. I have a plenty of environment variables which i want to use in my build process. like: ${PORT} = sol26xx2 ${path_for_tools} = /root/tools/${PORT} how should I access these variables from my build.xml? I could not get much info on this from the manuals (might be i am looking at the wrong place) Can someone pls help me ? Thanks in advance. Kumar -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>