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From: "Nico Seessle" <Nico.Seessle@epost.de>
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Subject: Re: getting result back from an <exec> task
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 23:12:38 +0100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bevan Arps" <bevan.arps@actfs.co.nz>
To: <ant-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 10:59 PM
Subject: Re: getting result back from an <exec> task


> One use: The Delphi compiler sets a result code based on whether the
> compilation worked or failed.
>
> At the moment I have to detect success/failure based on whether specific
> output files are created.
>

Your buildfile does not exit with "build failed" in this case? Can you post
a snippet of your buildfile? (Just to make sure everything is as it should
be :-) )

> FYI:
> The standard for this (inherited all the way from CPM!) is zero for no
> error, any other number identifies the error found.

The source for this task contains

            if (err != 0) {
                if (failOnError) {
                    throw new BuildException("Exec returned: "+err,
location);
                } else {
                    log("Result: " + err, Project.MSG_ERR);
                }
            }

so ant generally tries to behave like expected. Let's have a look on your
snippet and if it looks right I will try wo reproduce this.

Nico