Re: Minor xalan-test flaw, worth fixing?

Hi Joe,

All of Xalan-Java should live in the same Jira project, or at least I hope
it does.

Gary


On Tue, Aug 5, 2025, 18:43 Joseph Kesselman <[email protected]>
wrote:

> (Xalan-test has plenty of design flaws, but I happened to notice this one
> and I'm not sure it's been recorded as an issue...)
>
> Trying to get back to finishing the Ant build's missing step (bundling
> xalan-test into the source-release archive file). I am still not wild about
> that behavior, but the goal is to replicate the Ant build...
>
>
> While looking at this I noticed a flaw in my build.sh (probably in the
> build.bat too) : The script does not return the exit code from the ant run,
> which makes checking the result of a test invoked programmatically annoying
> at best.
>
> This is easily fixed by changing the final
>
>   echo "build.sh complete!"
>
> to
>
>   ant_rc=$?
>   echo "build.sh complete with return code" $ant_rc
>   exit $ant_rc
>
> (Note that we need to save $? Into a variable since echo's return code
> overwrites $?)
>
>
> I've forgotten: Do we have a separate Jira for xalan-test, or are we just
> documenting changes to it  under xalan-java?
>
>
>
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