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Subject: RE: launching Ant from a perl script
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:54:19 -0000
Message-ID: <D13035D3AF60894998961578840C8CD80128093E@pegasus.axiom.com>
Thread-Topic: launching Ant from a perl script
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From: "Keith Hatton" <khatton@axiomsystems.com>
To: "Ant Users List" <user@ant.apache.org>

Isn't there a runant.pl in your ANT_HOME/bin?


-----Original Message-----
From: John Cortell [mailto:cortell@cox.net]=20
Sent: 11 March 2005 00:53
To: user@ant.apache.org
Subject: launching Ant from a perl script


Hi,

I'm having a tough time figuring out how to get the return code from an
Ant=20
invocation when using perl. The problem is that the Ant front end is a
.bat=20
file (I'm working on Windows). When you invoke a bat file from perl, and

that bat file in turn invokes  something else (the Java Ant application
in=20
this case), perl does not capture the return code from that underlying=20
application.

In case this is confusing, let me spell out exactly what's going on. If
in=20
a perl file, I have the following:

      `ant -xyz`;  # invalid invocation; will clearly fail
      print("error is $?\n");

, when I run it, I get:

    error is 0

Surely, people are using Perl to drive Ant builds, so I'm sure there's a

simple answer to this, but I just can't find it.

John


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