David Crossley wrote:

The 'build docs' is broken. Help with Ant advice please.


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Doing 'build.sh -debug docs' gives some info ...
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forrest.checkenv:
Found
$FORREST_HOME=/usr/local/cvs/forrest-stable/xml-forrest/build/dist/shbat
Override ignored for property forrest.home
forrest.home set to ../xml-forrest/build/dist/shbat/
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Why is the override ignored? How do we fix this in Ant.



Variables in Ant behave like in XSLT: one set, it can never be changed. I think instead of trying to change forrest.home, you should use another variable name, or rename forrest.home in the properties file to something else.


Vadim





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