Question

I’m a newbie on Ant so instead of posting this on the official buglist(because its probably not a bug), I decided to post here:

When I run my Ant build.xml file everything works well except for the build directory, that instead of translating the property ${classes.dir} into build/ver_2.0.0/classes it creates a file ${cv.build.dir}/classes

Here is part of the ant code:

<!--Properties--> <property name='build.ver'   value='2.0.0'/>  <property name='src.dir'     value='src'/> <property name='lib.dir'     value='lib'/> <property name='build.dir'   value='build'/> <property name='classes.dir' value='${cv.build.dir}/classes'/> <property name='jar.dir'     value='${cv.build.dir}/jar'/> <property name='main-class'  value='br.uesc.computacao.estagio.controlador.ControladorModoExecucao'/> <property name='cv.dir'      value='ver_${build.ver}'/> <property name='cv.src.dir'  value='${src.dir}/${cv.dir}'/> <property name='cv.build.dir' value='${build.dir}/${cv.dir}'/> ... <target name='compile'>     <mkdir dir='${classes.dir}'/> 

Answer 1

<property name='before' value='${after}'/> <property name='after' value='MyBuildDirectory'/>  <target name='test' > <mkdir dir='${before}'/> </target> 

It will create directory named ${after}… You must initialize your parameters first before use!