Hey all. I was trying to set up my home environment (Win98 - don't laugh, I have a wife and an extended family that would die is they had to use linux... :-[ ) to do some ant development, and I ran into a couple of snags. I was trying to compile the CVS version and simply install it to d:\ant. Didn't work. I took a peek at build.bat, and it seems that the line to add -Dant.install=BLAH didn't have the =. Add it in, and you get a Syntax error. Lovely. I spent about two hours scouring the net to see how to embed an equals sign in a dos set statement ('cause there are NO decent docs that come with Win98), and I couldn't find it. So, this patch does the same test as before, except that it explictly calls and with -Dant.install=BLAH, rather than trying to do it with variable substitution. Looking at the other files, ant.bat had the same problem with the autodection of the Jikes directory. I don't have jikes, but I set the environment variable just for kicks, and I got the same syntax error. Same fix. Glenn McAllister Software Developer. IBM Toronto Lab, (416) 448-3805 "An approximate answer to the right question is better than the right answer to the wrong question." - John W. Tukey