Bug 436012

Summary:	dev-java/ant-core-1.8.4-r1 can't override system properties for ant
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ivan Baidakou (dmol) <the.dmol>
Component:	[OLD] Java	Assignee:	Java team <java>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	build.xml

Description Ivan Baidakou (dmol) 2012-09-23 18:12:57 UTC

When I launch 
$ant -Duser.home=/tmp -f build.xml
it should output "/tmp" for provided build.xml, but is uses my real user home instead. 
The bug seems to be fixed in upstream  https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51792, but I can't found the patch. 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Ivan Baidakou (dmol) 2012-09-23 18:13:25 UTC

Created attachment 324730 [details]
build.xml

Comment 2 Patrice Clement gentoo-dev

2015-07-27 10:54:47 UTC

monsieurp@epsilon ~/ant $ ant -version
Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.1 compiled on March 15 2015
monsieurp@epsilon ~/ant $ cat demo.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project default="dist" basedir="." name="Groovy" >

    <target name="dist" >
                <echo>home=${user.home}</echo>
    </target>

</project>
monsieurp@epsilon ~/ant $ ant -Duser.home=/tmp -f demo.xml
Buildfile: /home/monsieurp/ant/demo.xml

dist:
     [echo] home=/tmp

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 0 seconds

This bug seems to have been solved in recent versions of Ant. Reopen if you still encounter the issue.