Sorry to hear that your issue is still unresolved. I suggest entering a bug report in the bug database. Of course, you might want to search the bug database first, to see if the issue is already documented in there.
-Rob Anderson > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Voigt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 4:37 AM > To: user@ant.apache.org > Subject: Parallel tasks and Windows > > Hi, > > I posed this question some time ago, but did not get any > answers. I thought after half a year (and unfortunately no > new insights) I'd try again, because this behaviour seriously > prolongs our build time :-\ > > I stumbled upon a curious problem with the ant parallel > handling in conjunction with Windows XP. > > Let's say I have 3 targets: call1, call2 and call3 which are > executed in a parallel environment (2 threads). Each target > calls a hello world windows GUI application that has to be > closed manually and prints an exit confirmation afterwards. > Ant starts call1 and call2 correctly in parallel. Now the > curious thing is that ant will sometimes (not always) wait > for _both_ tasks to end before it starts the third task. No > output is written until both tasks are finished. > > The problem is not limited to GUI applications, we have the > same behaviour if we call the VS2005 C++ compiler :-( > > We tried to reproduce the problem by replacing the hello > world calls with various ant sleep commands, but this seemed > to work fine, the third task is always started immediately > after one of the first two tasks exits. > > Any insights? > > Regards, Thomas > > -- > GMX FreeMail: 1 GB Postfach, 5 E-Mail-Adressen, 10 Free SMS. > Alle Infos und kostenlose Anmeldung: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freemail > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For > additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
