Re: Failed taskdef reporting as successful build

Kenneth Burgener <kenneth.burgener-Fkv/[email protected]> Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:51:28 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.anthill
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Eric,

Awesome, thank you for the reply.  I had assumed it was a problem with
Anthill, so I was looking in the wrong spot.  I was fortunate enough
that this and a few other minor issues surrounding our build machine was
enough to convince a conversion to a Linux build machine.   :-)  hoorah!

Kenneth


Eric Minick wrote:
> Ken,
>
> This is the famed "Ant on Windows is broken" error. On Windows, a
> default install of Ant will always return an exit code reporting
> success. You can modify the ant.bat file to ensure it does return an
> exit code to correct this problem. There's an example ant.bat with
> this modification made that ships with Anthill. The rumor is that Ant
> 1.6 also has a fix, but we've seen mixed results from people using it.
>
> This is also discussed at some length on Ant's issue tracker:
> http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13655
>
> Regards,
>
> Eric