Re: [PATCH] Obtaining the environement variables and propagating them

[Peter Donald <do...@apache.org>]

At 10:59  28/11/00 -0800, Jose  Alberto Fernandez wrote:
>As promissed, here is a first shot at geting the environment and propagating 
>it properly during the <exec*> operations.
>  
>The patch modifies Execute.java which is the lowest level. Added a new 
>attribute to ExecTask "newenvironment='true'" if you do not want propagation.
>
> Added attribute "environment='prefix'" to <property/> to indicate to load
the 
> properties from the environment:
>
>  
>   <property environment="ant.env" />
>  
> I have tested <property> which calls the methods on Execute to do the
job, so 
> most should be tested at this point. But I only have NT, someone needs to 
> verify other environments and in particular set the correct values for the 
>command on the MAC if there are any.

Okay finally I finally downloaded cygwin (It *is* a great environment) and
applied patch. I had to mod it to work under windows 9x. Could everyone
else have a look at Execute.getProcEnvCommand() for their respective
environment. 

Cheers,

Pete

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