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On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 07:36:41 +0100, David Potts <>
wrote:

>Wendy S wrote:
>> In build.xml, I have:
>>
>> <property name="tomcat" value="c:\jakarta\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24" />
>> and
>> <path id="project.classpath">
>> <pathelement location="${tomcat}\common\lib\servlet.jar" />
>> </path>
>>
>> Is there a way to get it to pick up %TOMCAT_HOME% on Windows?
>>
>
>
>
>Yup. You declare a prefix (e.g. "env") with a property tag and can then
>reference environment variables by e.g. $(env.TOMCAT_HOME}.

Specifically,

<property environment="env"/>
<property name="tomcat" value="${env.TOMCAT_HOME}"/>

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