You're ifnot has failonerror="false". This is explicitly saying, "If my task or any child of my task fails for any reason, continue the build." So when your <fail> task executes, it "fails" and falls out to the <ifnot> task that then says, "I'll ignore that failure".
-----Original Message----- From: Sayah, Jeff (HHoldings, CALMS/IT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 11:29 AM To: 'Ian MacLean'; Sayah, Jeff (HHoldings, CALMS/IT) Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [Nant-users] Fail Task Ian, Since I sent My original message I have been digging into my build process trying to determine what is not working and I've figured out that it is not the nested call but something I'm doing inside the nested call. That said it still seems to behave in a way I would not expect. In the IF NOT Task if failonerror="false" the subsequent fail statement will not fail the build even though the fail statement is executed in the ifnot statement. I would have thought that the fail statement would execute and fail the build. <ifnot propertyexists="${localpath}\${debugmergefolder}\${verifyfilename}.prese nt" propertytrue="${localpath}\${debugmergefolder}\${verifyfilename}.present " failonerror="false"> <fail message="expected inventory items were not found." failonerror="true"/> </ifnot> Thanks Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Ian MacLean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 11:53 AM To: Sayah, Jeff (HHoldings, CALMS/IT) Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [Nant-users] Fail Task Jeff, the fail task should termintate the build. I just ran a test and the following build snippet: <target name="target1"> <echo message="in target1" /> <call target="target2"/> </target> <target name="target2"> <echo message="in target2" /> <call target="target3"/> <echo message="still in target2 - should have failed" /> </target> <target name="target3"> <echo message="in target3" /> <call target="failure"/> <echo message="still in target3 - should have failed" /> </target> <target name="failure"> <echo message="in failure target" /> <fail /> </target> produces the following output: target1: [echo] in target1 target2: [echo] in target2 target3: [echo] in target3 failure: [echo] in failure target BUILD FAILED Which is what you expect - ie if fails immediatly after the fail task is executed. Could you post the build script that exhibits the behaviour you describe ? Ian >Greetings, > >I am attempting to use the fail task within a nested target... > >Target A Calls > Target B Calls > Target C > Within Target C I Issue a Fail.... > >Target B & A continue to execute successfully and in fact all >subsequent build steps execute to completion. > > >Is this the behavior I should expect? If so what is the exact purpose >of the fail task. > > >This communication, including attachments, is for the exclusive use of >addressee and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged >information. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, >disclosure, dissemination or distribution is strictly prohibited. If >you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender >immediately by return email and delete this communication and destroy >all copies. > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. >http://thinkgeek.com/sf >_______________________________________________ >Nant-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users > > This communication, including attachments, is for the exclusive use of addressee and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, disclosure, dissemination or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return email and delete this communication and destroy all copies. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Nant-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Nant-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users
