Catching Results of exec

[Andreas Guther <an...@netfuel.com>]

Hi:

I wonder how I can catch the result of an exec and then fire
a specific target.

I have a build file that calls a lots of make files with exec.
I have failonerror="false" and the output goes into a log
file.

In case the exec returns e.g. 2 I still want to continue the build
but I would like then fire a mail target for that log file
in order to send the log file to the unit owner. 

In case the return code is available from a property, I could
imagine to evaluate that with a condition but I still have
no idea how to get the return code.

Is there a way to catch that return code?

Andreas



Andreas Guther                                                  
NetFuel, Inc                                                        
http://www.netfuel.com/contact/  

Re: Catching Results of exec

[Steve Loughran <st...@iseran.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Guther" <an...@netfuel.com>
To: <an...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 16:44
Subject: Catching Results of exec


> Hi:
>
> I wonder how I can catch the result of an exec and then fire
> a specific target.
>
> I have a build file that calls a lots of make files with exec.
> I have failonerror="false" and the output goes into a log
> file.
>
> In case the exec returns e.g. 2 I still want to continue the build
> but I would like then fire a mail target for that log file
> in order to send the log file to the unit owner.
>
> In case the return code is available from a property, I could
> imagine to evaluate that with a condition but I still have
> no idea how to get the return code.
>
> Is there a way to catch that return code?

yeah, we stuck that in to <exec> about three/four weeks ago. Get the source
from CVS and build it and then you can save the return code of <exec> into
the property named with the resultproperty attribute.

-steve


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