Bill,
This was actually a bug in the nant task. The properties you specified as
nested elements, were evaluated in the context of the new project. I
changed this to evaluate the properties in the current build file, when the
property is not dynamic.
This fix has been committed to cvs and will be available in the next nightly
build.
Gert
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 9:57 AM
Subject: [Nant-users] Properties problem on <nant> task
Hi,
I have a bit of a problem with the <nant> task and can't see what's wrong.
Below is a copy of my build script and the associated output. According to
the documentation, I should be able to use a property value in my current
project to pass through top a new NAnt instance, but it seems to be failing.
Am I missing something really stupid or is it a bug? I'm using NAnt 0.84
As you can see below, the property ${propfile} appears to be defined until I
use it in the nested <properties> element on the <nant> task.
Cheers,
Bill
Build Script
========
<project name="DailyBuild" default="compile" basedir=".">
<target name="init">
<tstamp property="build.date" pattern="dd MMM yyyy HH:mm" />
<echo message="${build.date}"/>
<echo message="Performing Daily Build ..."/>
<property name="webserver.install.dir" value="install/webserver" />
<property name="appserver.install.dir" value="install/appserver" />
<echo message="nant.home=${nant.home}" />
<echo message="src.home=${src.home}" />
<echo message="vssarchive.home=${vssarchive.home}" />
<echo message="vssproject.home=${vssproject.home}" />
<echo message="vssversion=${vssversion}" />
<echo message="systembuild.file=${systembuild.file}" />
<echo message="propfile=${propfile}" />
<echo message="vss.user=${vss.user}" />
<echo message="vss.password=${vss.password}" />
</target>
<target name="prepare" depends="init"/>
<!--Delete exiting source-->
<target name="clean" depends="prepare">
<!--delete dir="${src.home}" failonerror="false" /-->
</target>
<!--Extract Latest Version of Source-->
<target name="getsource" depends="clean">
<!--vssget
localpath="${src.home}"
recursive="true"
dbpath="${vssarchive.home}"
path="${vssproject.home}"
user="${vss.user}"
password="${vss.password}" /-->
</target>
<!--Build the system-->
<target name="compile" depends="getsource">
<echo message="propfile=${propfile}" />
<nant buildfile="${src.home}/ExWebGold.build" target="all"
inheritall="false">
<properties>
<property name="prop.file" value="${propfile}" />
</properties>
</nant>
</target>
<!--Deploy the system to the test server-->
<target name="deploy" depends="compile">
<!-- Create the install sets -->
<nant buildfile="${src.home}/install.build" target="allservers"
inheritall="false">
<properties>
<property name="webserver.install.dir"
value="$src.home}/${webserver.install.dir}" />
<property name="appserver.install.dir"
value="$src.home}/${appserver.install.dir}" />
</properties>
</nant>
</target>
</project>
Output to log
=========
Buildfile: file:///C:/DailyBuild/DailyBuild.build
Target(s) specified: compile
init:
[tstamp] 05 April 2004 08:43:34.
[echo] 05 Apr 2004 08:43
[echo] Performing Daily Build ...
[echo] propfile=C:\MySystem\properties.build
[echo] nant.home=C:\NAnt_0.84
[echo] src.home=C:\MySystem
[echo] vssarchive.home=\\SERVER\Share\MySystem\srcsafe.ini
[echo] vssproject.home=$/Source/Build/MySystem
[echo] vssversion=
[echo] systembuild.file=MySystem.build
[echo] propfile=C:\MySystem\properties.build
[echo] vss.user=guest
[echo] vss.password=
prepare:
clean:
getsource:
compile:
[echo] propfile=C:\MySystem\properties.build
[nant] C:\MySystem/MySystem.build all
BUILD FAILED
C:\DailyBuild\DailyBuild.build(56,18):
Property 'propfile' has not been set.
Total time: 0.2 seconds.
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