escape the backslashes (\\) or use forward slash (/) as separator in your property value
-----Original Message----- From: David W. Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 2:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: file & directory name property corrupted Hello ant gurus (dev too), I have a very curious problem: for a couple of weeks I have been using a hand tweeked build.xml acquired from a Tomcat servlet server download as a template to compile servlet and jsp base projects that run under Tomcat. Maybe this is a Tomcat mail list problem but since I'm here I might as well take the heat if this is the wrong ML. The build.xml file I have been using the past couple of weeks has worked perfectly until today. Upstream in the build.xml is a list of so-called File and Directory names defined as ant properties. One of the properties that defines the Tomcat installation directory home: catalina.home corrupts the directory path string that is assigned to it i.e the directory path string loses the backslash delimiter (\) and the string is compressed together. An example follows and thanks in advance. <property name="catalina.home" value="C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.5"/> At comple time namely when at the command line the following ant sequence is issued: ant (or ant compile) the following error condition is returned: build compile: [echo] Using user.home=C:\Documents and Settings\hbd6345 [echo] Using catalina.home=C:Program FilesApache Software FoundationTomcat 5.5 [javac] Compiling 1 source file to C:\Documents and Settings\hbd6345\My Documents\general\dev\in ventory\build\WEB-INF\classes BUILD FAILED C:\Documents and Settings\hbd6345\My Documents\general\dev\inventory\build.xml:289: C:\Program Files Apache Software FoundationTomcat 5.5\common\endorsed not found. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
