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Posted to dev@ant.apache.org by gl...@ca.ibm.com on 2000/09/05 16:27:26 UTC
[PATCH] The build.bat and ant.bat files don't actually work for the install
target and using jikes in Win98
Hey all. I was trying to set up my home environment (Win98 - don't laugh,
I have a wife and an extended family that would die is they had to use
linux... :-[ ) to do some ant development, and I ran into a couple of
snags. I was trying to compile the CVS version and simply install it to
d:\ant. Didn't work. I took a peek at build.bat, and it seems that the
line to add -Dant.install=BLAH didn't have the =. Add it in, and you get
a Syntax error. Lovely.
I spent about two hours scouring the net to see how to embed an equals
sign in a dos set statement ('cause there are NO decent docs that come
with Win98), and I couldn't find it. So, this patch does the same test as
before, except that it explictly calls and with -Dant.install=BLAH, rather
than trying to do it with variable substitution.
Looking at the other files, ant.bat had the same problem with the
autodection of the Jikes directory. I don't have jikes, but I set the
environment variable just for kicks, and I got the same syntax error. Same
fix.
Glenn McAllister
Software Developer. IBM Toronto Lab, (416) 448-3805
"An approximate answer to the right question is better than the
right answer to the wrong question." - John W. Tukey