I couldn't reproduce the problem. Any chance you can write a test case for us?

I can reproduce it on Windows. On Unix (Solaris) it works fine.

The problem is the intepretation of "," of Windows' cmd.exe:

> D:\workspace\project>ant -Dfoo=bar,baz
> Buildfile: build.xml
>
> BUILD FAILED
> Target "baz" does not exist in the project
>
> Total time: 5 seconds

> D:\workspace\project>ant "-Dfoo=bar,baz"
WORKS

> D:\workspace\project>ant -Dfoo="bar,baz"
WORKS

But fixing this by just surrounding the "-D" arguments with " is not a real fix,
because if the property contains " you have to escape them. But only on
Windows... Quite complicated...

Ant.java:
...
for (Entry<Object,Object> entry : p.entrySet()) {
args.add("-D" + entry.getKey() + "='" + entry.getValue());
}
...

Hudson 1.370 has changed Ant args quoting. So the above workaround doesn't work anymore.
For
foo="bar,baz"
Ant command line is
cmd.exe /C '"ant.bat "-Dfoo=""bar,baz""" && exit %%ERRORLEVEL%%"'
and foo gets
"bar,baz"
value (including quotes).
For
foo=bar,baz
Ant command line is
cmd.exe /C '"ant.bat -Dfoo=bar,baz && exit %%ERRORLEVEL%%"'
and the command fails.

But for
foo=bar, baz
(with space) Ant command line is
cmd.exe /C '"ant.bat "-Dfoo=bar, baz" && exit %%ERRORLEVEL%%"'
and foo gets
bar, baz
value. Not a workaround too.

what will windows come up with next.. when I did the escaping changes it didn't even occur to me that comma might be a character needing escaping.

Code changed in hudson
User: : mindless
Path:
trunk/hudson/main/core/src/main/java/hudson/util/ArgumentListBuilder.java
trunk/hudson/main/core/src/test/java/hudson/util/ArgumentListBuilderTest.java
trunk/www/changelog.html
http://jenkins-ci.org/commit/34229
Log:
[FIXED JENKINS-2149] add comma to list of characters that need escaping on windows

Integrated in hudson_main_trunk #235
[FIXED JENKINS-2149] add comma to list of characters that need escaping on windows

mindless :
Files :

• /trunk/hudson/main/core/src/test/java/hudson/util/ArgumentListBuilderTest.java
• /trunk/www/changelog.html
• /trunk/hudson/main/core/src/main/java/hudson/util/ArgumentListBuilder.java

Whew!
After updating to Hudson 1.375 I got problems with my Ant targets like:
– prepareSTX, prepareFKC
because Ant told me that there was no target "prepareSTX,"

I'd to change my configuration to:
– preapreSTX prepareFKC

(Just in the case someone'r getting the same problem)