Hi again, It is solved now. I run Ubuntu and had defined CATALINA_HOME in etc/environment to get a system wide environment variable. I then used . /etc/environment to load the variable into the bash instance I used. Somehow ant could not pick up on this variable until after I rebooted. I'm sure there is some way to load it in, I'm just not proficient enough with Linux.
Best regards, Kent On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Kent Larsson <[email protected]>wrote: > 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? >
