[Anthill] ant issues: can't read properties file, exec task doesn't work

[Brian Dellisanti]

Eric and I looked into the problem more deeply yesterday and I we have a
fix that may solve your problem without your having to hardcode paths. I
should be able to get that out to you after I finish tying up a few
loose ends.

On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 15:39 -0700, Mirza Abbas Raza wrote:
> Thanks a bunch, Brian! Hard-coding the path worked. I
> would play around a bit to get a better way to do.
> 
> --- Brian Dellisanti <bdd at urbancode.com> wrote:
> 
> > In your barebones project, did you try hardcoding
> > the absolute path of
> > your test.bat? Based on what I have to look at, I
> > agree with Eric that
> > it's a working directory problem. According to the
> > ant manual, removing
> > the basedir attribute from the project tag will
> > cause ant to compute
> > relative paths from the location of the build.xml
> > file. Perhaps that
> > will help.
> > 
> > On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 12:40 -0700, Mirza Abbas Raza
> > wrote:
> > > Btw, Eric, I created a very barebone project
> > > containing only a build.xml file and a test.bat
> > file
> > > sitting the root directory. I try to execute this
> > > test.bat and I get the same exception. :(
> > > 
> > > --- Eric Minick <etm at urbancode.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Error 2 on windows is File Not Found. Looks like
> > you
> > > > have a couple of
> > > > files that Anthill isn't finding. Perhaps these
> > are
> > > > both working directory
> > > > woes. Does this command work from the
> > commandline if
> > > > you run the build
> > > > file from a different directory?
> > > > 
> > > > -- Eric
> > > > 
> > > > > The exception printed for the second issue is:
> > > > >
> > > > > BUILD FAILED
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> file:D:/projects/anthill/<namehidden>/src/build.xml:311:
> > > > > Execute failed: java.io.IOException:
> > > > CreateProcess:
> > > > > ..\bin\stopManagedService.bat error=2
> > > > >
> > > > > --- Mirza Abbas Raza <abbasrazam at yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> All,
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Looks like I am doing all wrong things today.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> My environment:
> > > > >> Anthill: anthill os 1.8.0.264
> > > > >> Ant: 1.5.3
> > > > >> Servlet container: Tomcat 5.0.28
> > > > >> OS: Win 2k
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Issues:
> > > > >> - anthill doesn't read build.properties.
> > > > Following
> > > > >> is
> > > > >> a snippet from my build.xml.
> > > > >> <target name="anthill-build">
> > > > >>     <property file="build.properties"/>
> > > > >>     <echo>${weblogic.domains}</echo>
> > > > >> The property being echoed is present in the
> > > > >> build.properties file. Anthill doesn't echo
> > the
> > > > >> value
> > > > >> of the property. It just prints out the text
> > > > literal
> > > > >> in echo tags. When I run the same target
> > manually
> > > > >> from
> > > > >> with anthill, the property value is printed
> > out.
> > > > :(
> > > > >> At
> > > > >> the same time, in the same target, I have a
> > copy
> > > > >> task
> > > > >> call which uses filtersfile and it works. It
> > > > >> replaces
> > > > >> the necessary placeholders. Seems weird.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> - ant complains running <exec> task. Again a
> > > > snippet
> > > > >> from my file.
> > > > >> <exec executable="startManagedService.bat"
> > > > >> os="Windows
> > > > >> 2000"/>
> > > > >> Again the batch file runs fine if I run
> > manually.
> > > > :(
> > > > >>
> > > > >> I would really appreciate any input.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Thanks.
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
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