@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
html>
< html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ or the task will fail as follows:
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">searchpath</td>
<td valign="top">When this attribute is true nested , then
<td valign="top">When this attribute is true, then
system path environment variables will
be searched when resolving the location
of the executable. <em>since Ant 1.6.3</em></td>
@@ -312,10 +312,11 @@ is set to <code>false</code>. You can use that to run a program if it exists, bu
otherwise do nothing.
<p>
What do those error codes mean? Well, they are OS dependent. On Windows
boxes you have to look in include\error.h in your windows compiler or wine files;
error code 2 means 'no such program', which usually means it is not on the path.
Any time you see such an error from any ant task, it is usually not an ant bug,
but some configuration problem on your machine.
boxes you have to look at
<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/debug/base/system_error_codes__0-499_.asp">
the documentation</a>; error code 2 means 'no such program', which usually means
it is not on the path. Any time you see such an error from any Ant task, it is
usually not an Ant bug, but some configuration problem on your machine.
<h3>Examples</h3>
<blockquote><pre>
@@ -335,7 +336,7 @@ but some configuration problem on your machine.
system command.</p>
<blockquote><pre>
<property name="browser" location="C:/Programme /Internet Explorer/iexplore.exe"/>
<property name="browser" location="C:/Program Files /Internet Explorer/iexplore.exe"/>
<property name="file" location="ant/docs/manual/index.html"/>
<exec executable="${browser}" spawn="true">
@@ -343,7 +344,7 @@ system command.</p>
</exec>
</pre></blockquote>
<p>Starts the <i>${browser}</i> with the specified <i>${file}</i> and end the
ant process. The browser will let be ope n.</p>
Ant process. The browser will remai n.</p>
<blockquote><pre>
<exec executable="cat">
@@ -367,14 +368,9 @@ in a property of the same name. Similarly, error output is sent to
a file and a property, both named "redirector.err".
<p><b>Note:</b> Although it may work for you to specify arguments using
a simple arg-element and separate them by spaces it may fail if you switch to
a newer version of the JDK. JDK < 1.2 will pass these as separate arguments
to the program you are calling, JDK >= 1.2 will pass them as a single
argument and cause most calls to fail.</p>
<p><b>Note2:</b> If you are using Ant on Windows and a new DOS-Window pops up
for every command which is executed this may be a problem of the JDK you are using.
This problem may occur with all JDK's < 1.2.</p>
<p><b>Note:</b> do not try to specify arguments using
a simple arg-element and separate them by spaces. This results in
only a single argument containing the entire string.</p>
<p>
<b>Timeouts: </b> If a timeout is specified, when it is reached the
sub process is killed and a message printed to the log. The return
Steve Loughran