Missing SEAM_HOME environment variable fails Ant build - ant

My machine just had its hard drive re-imaged so I'm trying to rebuild it. At this point, I am trying to execute an ant script which has worked for years. Not anymore. When the script compiles the javac errors because it can't find a directory.
The error is...
BUILD FAILED
C:\Users\WHeckle\Documents\temp\6.9.2\build-tceq.xml:92: C:\Users\WHeckle\Documents\temp\6.9.2\${env.SEAM_HOME}\lib does not exist.
It looks like it is concatenating the current directory with seam_home and using it as a library reference to the compiler.
I am at a loss to explain the behavior. Any help is appreciated.

The Ant script expects to find a Windows environment variable named SEAM_HOME.
To get the script to work...
Close any Command Prompts that are open.
Create a SEAM_HOME Windows system environment variable (if this step is unclear, search Google to find instructions on how to do this for your version of Windows).
Open a new Command Prompt.
Run echo %SEAM_HOME% in the Command Prompt to confirm that the environment variable is set.
Re-run your Ant script.
SEAM_HOME appears to be related to JBoss. For an example of what the value of SEAM_HOME can be, see this JBossDeveloper forum post.

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