Try invoking with -d and ant will show you exactly the command line it is
running. This may reveal your issue.
In this particular case you might want to consider using the <ant> task
instead of exec.
<project name="test" default="run">
>
> <target name="run">
> <ant antfile="${ant.file}" target="clean"/>
> </target>
>
> <target name="clean">
> <echo message="CLEAN"/>
> </target>
>
> </project>
>
Harold
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Jarek Czekalski
<jarekc...@poczta.onet.pl>wrote:
> On 1.8.2 and same windows it runs fine.
>
> W dniu 2012-04-09 16:54, ivadim pisze:
>
> Hello.
>> I have some problems with exec task.
>>
>> I have build.xml:
>> <project name="test">
>>
>> <target name="run">
>> <exec executable="cmd">
>> <arg value="/c"/>
>> <arg value="${ant.home}/bin/ant"/>
>> <arg value="-f"/>
>> <arg value="${ant.file}"/>
>> <arg value="clean"/>
>> </exec>
>> </target>
>>
>> <target name="clean">
>> <echo message="CLEAN"/>
>> </target>
>>
>> </project>
>>
>> When I run "ant run" command I expected to see CLEAN message. But actualy
>> this is recursively execute task "run".
>>
>> run:
>> [exec] Buildfile: C:\Users\dmivanov\Projects\**tmp\build.xml
>> [exec]
>> [exec] run:
>> [exec] [exec] Buildfile: C:\Users\dmivanov\Projects\**
>> tmp\build.xml
>> [exec] [exec]
>> [exec] [exec] run:
>>
>> My OS is Windows 7x64
>> Ant version is 1.8.0
>>
>> Anybody know why it is happens?
>>
>>
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