More .net 3.5 Funnies

I've found one more problem and solution to it but also have a puzzling
situation.

First the problem; on our build server we're running NAnt 0.86 and I'm
trying to get things working with the net-3.5 target framework. One build
was failing with an error:

Unexpected attribute "if" on element <directory>.

It took a while but I traced this to the nant.exe.config file. In the
net-3.5 section, the tool-paths element has a set of directory elements and
the first one (for the sdkInstall directory) has an 'if' attribute to guard
against the possibility that and sdkInstallRoot was not found. This if
attribute seems to work fine in the 0.90 build but not in 0.86. The solution
is to remove that 'if' element as it is not there in the net-2.0 or net-1.1
sections.

Now the puzzle. On my build server we're running Windows SDK v6.0 and .Net
Framework 3.5 32 bit, when I attempt to build with NAnt 0.90 I get an error
complaining that AL.exe could not be started because the ALink.dll could not
be found. On that server, the sdkInstallRoot\bin directory contains Al.exe
but not ALink.dll. The installRoot\v3.5 has neither but
installRoot\V2.0.50727 has both. So on that server it seems like NAnt 0.90
is looking only in the first path and not the others.

The plot thinkens...

On my desktop I'm running NAnt 0.90 with Windows 7.0 SDK and .Net Framework
3.5 64 bit. In this set up I can successfully run the same build that fails
on our build server. Here the sdkInstallRoot\bin directory contains AL.exe
but not ALink.dll. The installRoot\v3.5 contains neither and
installRoot\v2.0.50727 only contains ALink.dll. So on my desktop, where
AL.exe and ALink.dll are not in the same folder NAnt 0.90 seems to be able
to find both.

What am I missing?

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Chris.

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