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Subject: Re: Exec task does not fail inspite of non-zero error level
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I may be entirely wrong, been a while, but I think you need to 
"return 50" or "exit 50" to get the error code returned to ant...

At 12:03 PM 8/5/2005, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am using an ant script to trigger off my builds and unit tests but for
>some reason I am unable to get the exec task to work properly.
>My ant script contains the following code snippet:
><!-- Build component -->
>
><target name="build" depends="init">
>
><exec executable="${root}/BUILDLOCAL.CMD" failonerror="true"
>
>output="${output.dir}/build.txt">
>
></exec>
>
></target>
>
>
>
>All my BUILDLOCAL.CMD does is set ERRORLEVEL=50.
>
>This should cause my build task to fail however for some reason my build
>executes successfully.
>
>Could you tell me what I am doing wrong. I was under the impression that
>failonerror=true should cause a failure if errorlevel is non-zero.
>
>
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Shahyan.
>
>
>
>
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