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Posted to user@ant.apache.org by Perry Hunchak <ph...@palmtreebusiness.com> on 2001/05/03 16:27:28 UTC

Using System Environment variables

Is there any way to use the system environment variables (for windows)
in the build.xml file ant uses?

I currently use specify my tomcat home by pointing to the file system
path

example:
  <property name="tomcat.home" value="d:/java/tomcat3.2.1"/>

But I'd like to just use the system environment variable so I could use
this on different servers

example:
  <property name="tomcat.home" value="Tomcat_Home"/>

Is there any way to do this?

Re: Using System Environment variables

Posted by Stephen Graham <sg...@bigpond.com>.
You could also write your own task to read the environemt variables you.

Regards
Stephen Graham.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Perry Hunchak" <ph...@palmtreebusiness.com>
To: <an...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 12:27 AM
Subject: Using System Environment variables


Is there any way to use the system environment variables (for windows)
in the build.xml file ant uses?

I currently use specify my tomcat home by pointing to the file system
path

example:
  <property name="tomcat.home" value="d:/java/tomcat3.2.1"/>

But I'd like to just use the system environment variable so I could use
this on different servers

example:
  <property name="tomcat.home" value="Tomcat_Home"/>

Is there any way to do this?

Re: Using System Environment variables

Posted by Fabian Mörchen <Fa...@math.uni-giessen.de>.
hi

haven't tried on win, but this work on linux:

<property environment="env"/>

${env.JAVA_HOME}

bye
fabian


Perry Hunchak wrote:
> 
> Is there any way to use the system environment variables (for windows)
> in the build.xml file ant uses?
> 
> I currently use specify my tomcat home by pointing to the file system
> path
> 
> example:
>   <property name="tomcat.home" value="d:/java/tomcat3.2.1"/>
> 
> But I'd like to just use the system environment variable so I could use
> this on different servers
> 
> example:
>   <property name="tomcat.home" value="Tomcat_Home"/>
> 
> Is there any way to do this?

-- 
Fabian Mörchen
fabian@mybytes.de
http://www.mybytes.de

Re: Using System Environment variables

Posted by Jim Downing <ji...@pobox.com>.
Perry,
use  <property environment="env"/>
then env.Tomcat_Home.

jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Perry Hunchak" <ph...@palmtreebusiness.com>
To: <an...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 3:27 PM
Subject: Using System Environment variables


Is there any way to use the system environment variables (for windows)
in the build.xml file ant uses?

I currently use specify my tomcat home by pointing to the file system
path

example:
  <property name="tomcat.home" value="d:/java/tomcat3.2.1"/>

But I'd like to just use the system environment variable so I could use
this on different servers

example:
  <property name="tomcat.home" value="Tomcat_Home"/>

Is there any way to do this?

Re: Using System Environment variables

Posted by Nico Seessle <ni...@apache.org>.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Graham" <sg...@bigpond.com>
To: <an...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: Using System Environment variables


> The most common way of doing this is to pass the environment variables in
on
> the command line, using the '-D' option.
>
> I don't know any other way of getting access to environment variables from
> within the build script.
>

<property environment="env"/>

will give you a property named "env.TOMCAT_HOME" for the environment
variable "TOMCAT_HOME". It can then be referenced using ${env.TOMCAT_HOME}.

Nico

Re: Using System Environment variables

Posted by Stephen Graham <sg...@bigpond.com>.
The most common way of doing this is to pass the environment variables in on
the command line, using the '-D' option.

I don't know any other way of getting access to environment variables from
within the build script.

Regards
Stephen Graham.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Perry Hunchak" <ph...@palmtreebusiness.com>
To: <an...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 12:27 AM
Subject: Using System Environment variables


Is there any way to use the system environment variables (for windows)
in the build.xml file ant uses?

I currently use specify my tomcat home by pointing to the file system
path

example:
  <property name="tomcat.home" value="d:/java/tomcat3.2.1"/>

But I'd like to just use the system environment variable so I could use
this on different servers

example:
  <property name="tomcat.home" value="Tomcat_Home"/>

Is there any way to do this?