Hi, I have a build.xml for my Ant build script and a build.properties file
for easier configuration.
$ ls build.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 tnek tnek 29 2009-01-15 17:01 build.properties
-rw-r--r-- 1 tnek tnek 270 2009-01-15 17:05 build.xml
They are short and easy to understand:
$ cat build.properties
# Some comment
hello=jejejej
$ cat build.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project xmlns:ivy="antlib:org.apache.ivy.ant" name="testproject">
<property environment="env"/>
<property file="build.properties"/>
<echo message="hello = ${hello} and env.CATALINA_HOME =
${env.CATALINA_HOME} and path = ${env.PATH}"/>
</project>
The environment variable CATALINA_HOME is defined:
$ echo $CATALINA_HOME
/var/lib/tomcat5.5
Still only the environment variable PATH is echoed as it's supposed to:
$ ant -v
Apache Ant version 1.7.0 compiled on August 29 2007
Buildfile: build.xml
Detected Java version: 1.6 in: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.07/jre
Detected OS: Linux
parsing buildfile /home/tnek/testproject/build.xml with URI =
file:/home/tnek/testproject/build.xml
Project base dir set to: /home/tnek/testproject
[antlib:org.apache.tools.ant] Could not load definitions from resource
org/apache/tools/ant/antlib.xml. It could not be found.
[property] Loading Environment env.
[property] Loading /home/tnek/testproject/build.properties
Property "env.CATALINA_HOME" has not been set
[echo] hello = jejejej and env.CATALINA_HOME = ${env.CATALINA_HOME}
and path =
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 0 seconds
Why isn't CATALINA_HOME echoed and how can I fix it?
