Aw: RE: Pass build failure message to the calling script

> > Is it possible without parsing the output of Ant? If yes, how?
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> output="output.html"

But doesn't it essentially mean parsing the build output -- something I'd like to avoid?

I rather thought about Ant setting some kind of an environment variable when it exits. I.e. I'd specify some option (which probably does not exist yet) on the command line which would specify the name of a env variable to set, and Ant would set that variable when it exits.