Question

I’m making someone else’s ant build work with a source path that contains a space. Most of it has been basic shell script stuff, adding double-quotes around paths, but this one has me stumped:

(from build.xml):

<path id="headers">
    <fileset dir="${source.main.dir}">
        <include name="**/*.h"/>
    </fileset>
</path>

source.main.dir is a path containing spaces. It’s prepended to each of the include file names found by the pattern. How do I get this to happen with quotes around each one?

In case it matters, I’m running the build from the command line on OS X Lion 10.7.4.

Answer 1

I think I got it! I changed:

    <pathconvert pathsep=" " property="doc.files.list" refid="headers" />

to

    <pathconvert pathsep=" " property="doc.files.list" refid="headers">
        <map from='${source.main.dir}' to='"${source.main.dir}"' />
    </pathconvert>

And it seems to be working now.