You need to setup the perforce installations in the main configuration page,
goto http://yourserver:port/configure and scroll to find the perforce section and then click the add perforce button enter the name of the installation and the path to the executable, of setup the automatic installation option. Looks like the wiki screenshots show the versions pre 1.3.9 when this change was made. Chris, On Wednesday, 21 March 2012 16:15:41 UTC, Ribram wrote: > > Jenkins 1.456 with Perforce Plugin 1.3.10 on both Windows and Linux. > > Cannot seem to invoke the p4 client (it is in the path). Seeing the > exception: > > Caught exception communicating with perforce. Could not run perforce > command.com.tek42.perforce.PerforceException: Could not run perforce > command. > at > hudson.plugins.perforce.HudsonP4DefaultExecutor.exec(HudsonP4DefaultExecutor.java:88) > at > com.tek42.perforce.parse.AbstractPerforceTemplate.getPerforceResponse(AbstractPerforceTemplate.java:321) > at > com.tek42.perforce.parse.AbstractPerforceTemplate.getPerforceResponse(AbstractPerforceTemplate.java:292) > at com.tek42.perforce.parse.Workspaces.getWorkspace(Workspaces.java:61) > at > hudson.plugins.perforce.PerforceSCM.getPerforceWorkspace(PerforceSCM.java:1325) > at hudson.plugins.perforce.PerforceSCM.checkout(PerforceSCM.java:725) > at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1212) > at > hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.checkout(AbstractBuild.java:579) > at > hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.run(AbstractBuild.java:468) > at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1410) > at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:46) > at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88) > at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:238) > Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "" (in directory > "C:\Documents and Settings\dev\.jenkins\jobs\TestJob\workspace"): > CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified > at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(Unknown Source) > at hudson.Proc$LocalProc.<init>(Proc.java:244) > at hudson.Proc$LocalProc.<init>(Proc.java:216) > at hudson.Launcher$LocalLauncher.launch(Launcher.java:707) > at hudson.Launcher$ProcStarter.start(Launcher.java:338) > at > hudson.plugins.perforce.HudsonP4DefaultExecutor.exec(HudsonP4DefaultExecutor.java:79) > ... 12 more > Caused by: java.io.IOException: CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot > find the file specified > at java.lang.ProcessImpl.create(Native Method) > at java.lang.ProcessImpl.<init>(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(Unknown Source) > ... 18 more > ERROR: Unable to communicate with perforce. Could not run perforce command. > Finished: FAILURE > > Notice 'cannot run program ""' > > On the wiki screenshots there appears to be a way to set the path to your > p4 client which I am not seeing. Also clicking 'Advanced' P4 Executable > shows an empty read-only dropdown box. >
