Hi,

I am just carrying on a discussion on the list that was started
privately ...

On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Sam Ruby wrote:

> If you look closely at the generated build.sh, you will see lines like the
> following:
> 
>    eval "java org.apache.tools.ant.Main -Dbuild.sysclasspath=only $TARGET
>    $OUT 2>&1"
>    test $? -ge 1 && export STATUS="BUILD FAILED"

Is there any reason that Ant isn't used more for the building
and updating scripts? Is Ant too slow for a massive build system
like gump, or are there features missing that make Ant not
appropriate for gump?

> What these lines are intended to do is to check the return code from ant,
> and set the status appropriately.  Something is different about your
> version of Java, or your shell so that the above doesn't work for you.  If
> we can find some sequence of statements which works across more
> combinations, then I'm all for it.

Ok, I will start poking around but my system is almost the
same as yours: I use RH 7.0 and that's the only difference.

> For reference, I'm using RedHat Linux 6.2, with bash, and Sun JDK:
>    Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.0)
>    Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.0, mixed mode)
> 
> One nice thing about generating to a shell script is that you can directly
> edit the shell script until you get the behavior you want, then update the
> stylesheets to produce that behavior.
> 
> - Sam Ruby

jvz.


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