Mick,
I ran into it, and a most painfull 2 hours it was too ;-)
a crossplatform way would be to call 'mkClient' instead of 'mkClient.bat',
and you could have a shellscript called 'mkClient' on unix.
I think this has been encountered before, see the antRun and antRun.bat in
the bin folder of the ant distro. I'm not 100% sure but
I think it's a 'feature' of Runtime.exec(..) that you can't redirect the
output.
regards
Kevin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: M.A.Dunphy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 12 March 2001 16:30
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: Creating a p4 client workspace
>
>
> Hi
>
> Kevin, does that mean you came across the same problem and
> this was the only
> solution? Is the problem with the p4 command being run via
> ant rather than
> something wrong with ant?
>
> The only problem with you're solution is that it becomes
> platform specific
> (i.e .bat Vs .sh) where as the command p4 client -i < ...
> would work on any
> platform.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin O'Regan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 12 March 2001 15:42
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Creating a p4 client workspace
>
>
> > I'm trying to create a client workspace without invoking the
> > editor. So
> > first I define the settings for the workspace in a file and
> > then I invoke p4
> > to create the workspace, but it is failing for the reason
> shown below:
> >
> > [exec] Myos = Windows 2000
> > [exec] p4 client -i <
> > C:\DOCUME~1\mdunphy\LOCALS~1\Temp\p4clientworkspace.txt
> > Execute:Java13CommandLauncher: p4 client -i <
> > C:\DOCUME~1\mdunphy\LOCALS~1\Temp\p4_clientworkspace.txt
> > [exec] Usage: client -i [ -f ]
> > [exec] Unexpected arguments.
> > [exec] Result: 1
> >
> > the exec task is shown below:
> >
> > <exec executable="p4">
> > <arg line="client -i < ${p4.client.workspace}"/>
> > </exec>
>
> The only solution I found was to create a batch file that takes the
> clientname and calls p4
>
> i.e. mkClient.bat
>
> p4 -c%1 client -i<%2
>
> and takes the client name and description from ant.
>
> i.e.
>
> <target name="create_tmp_client">
> <mkdir dir="${logs}"/>
> <copy file="${Misc.Files}\default.client"
> tofile="${logs}\p4client" overwrite="yes"/>
> <replace file="${logs}\p4client"
> token="@Perforce.Client@"
> value="ant-${user.name}-${host.name}"/>
> <replace file="${logs}\p4client" token="@Perforce.Root@"
> value="${basedir}"/>
> <replace file="${logs}\p4client" token="@User.Name@"
> value="ant-${user.name}"/>
> <exec dir="${basedir}" executable="p4.exe"
> output="${logs}\p4clientcreate.txt">
> <arg
> line="-c$ant-${user.name}-${host.name} client
> -o"/>
> </exec>
> <exec dir="${basedir}"
> executable="${Misc.Files}\mkClient.bat"
> output="${logs}\p4clientmodify.txt">
> <arg value="$ant-${user.name}-${host.name}"/>
> <arg value="${logs}\p4client"/>
> </exec>
> </target>
>
> regards
>
> Kevin
>
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