Hi, I use an Ant script that shows different behavior on the Mac and Windows platform. Both Ant are used from within Eclipse
Mac: Eclipse 3.5 (Build-id, 20090621-0832) with Ant 1.7.1.v20090120-1145 Windows: Eclipse 3.5 (Build id: 20100218-1602) with Ant 1.7.1.v20090120-1145 In particular it fails on the Windows machine with (ran from inside the project): Buildfile: C:\Development\eclipseEE\workspace\acmeproject\build.xml init: compile: [copy] Copying 1 file to C:\Development\eclipseEE\workspace\acmeproject\build\classesC:\Development\eclipseEE\workspace\acmeproject\src\acme\servlet BUILD FAILED C:\Development\eclipseEE\workspace\acmeproject\build.xml:86: Failed to copy C:\Development\eclipseEE\workspace\acmeproject\src\acme\servlet\messages.properties to C:\Development\eclipseEE\workspace\acmeproject\build\classesC:\Development\eclipseEE\workspace\acmeproject\src\acme\servlet\messages.properties due to java.io.FileNotFoundException C:\Development\eclipseEE\workspace\acmeproject\build\classesC:\Developement\eclipseEE\workspace\acmeproject\src\acme\servlet\messages.properties (Die Syntax für den Dateinamen, Verzeichnisnamen oder die Datenträgerbezeichnung ist falsch) Total time: 282 milliseconds 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> So what seems to happen is that ${classes} AND ${properties-path} are each transformed into a full path. instead of resolving each property-variable first, concatenating them and then transforming that into a path (like it does on the Mac). Is this a known issue, expected behavior or just bland misuse of properties on my part? Best regards Oliver Schrenk