Ouch. You are right of course.

Good thing is that I learned about the difference about "value" and "location", even If I had to learn it the hard way through public humiliation.

Thanks for taking the time.

Am 03.03.2010 um 17:01 schrieb Antoine Levy Lambert:

> Hello Oliver,
>
> on mac, because mac is a UNIX like system,
>
> <property name="properties-path"
> location="/acme/servlet/messages.properties" />
>
> gets expanded to /acme/servlet/messages.properties
>
> because of the leading slash, ant thinks that /acme/servlet/messages.properties is an absolute path and should not be resolved.
>
> In fact your error is to use the attribute location instead of value when you define a relative path.
>
> Maybe the behavior of ant is a surprise to you but it is working as expected from the Ant's developers.
>
> Regards,
>
> Antoine
>
>
>
> Oliver Schrenk wrote:
>> I solved my problem by using two properties, one for "file" and one for
>> "tofile"
>>
>> I wonder though why the original approach works on Mac platform but not on
>> windows. There are different two behaviours:
>>
>>
>>
>> 1.MAC: multiple properties in "tofile" are first resolved, concatenated and
>> then converted to a path using basedir
>> 2.WINDOWS: multiple properties in "tofile" are each converted to a path
>> against basedir, then concatenated and again converted to a path using
>> basedir
>>
>> While I can understand the error, there has to be consistency along all
>> platforms. The more I think about it, the moreI think of it as a bug
>>
>>
>> 2010/3/3 Antoine Levy Lambert <antoine@(protected)>
>>
>>
>>> Oliver Schrenk wrote:
>>>
>>>  
>>>> Here is an excerpt from the build file:
>>>>
>>>> <project name="Project" default="preview" basedir=".">
>>>>
>>>> <property name="build" location="build" />
>>>> <property name="classes" location="${build}/classes" />
>>>> <property name="properties-path"
>>>> location="/acme/servlet/messages.properties" />
>>>>
>>>> <!-- snip -->
>>>>
>>>> <target name="compile" depends="init" description="compile the source ">
>>>> <!-- Next line is line 86 -->
>>>> <copy file="${properties-path}" tofile="${classes}${properties-path}" />
>>>> <!-- snip -->
>>>> </target>
>>>> <!-- snip -->
>>>> </project>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Is this a known issue, expected behavior or just bland misuse of
>>>  
>>>> properties
>>>> on my part?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    
>>> change just this line
>>>
>>> <property name="properties-path"
>>> value="/acme/servlet/messages.properties" />
>>>
>>> when you use the <property location=""/> idiom, the property is converted
>>> to an absolute path. ${classes} is also an absolute path.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>  
>>>> Oliver Schrenk
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Antoine
>>>
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