I ended up writing a custom ant task to do this. Unfortunately in both *nix and
windows you can't always rely on environment variables. On *nix you need to
read the output of /bin/hostname or on windows read the output of
WScript.Network.ComputerName
Regards, Simon
On 8/05/2012, at 8:28 AM, Eric Fetzer <elstonk...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks Nathan, very helpful. This is at the top of my build file:
>
> <property name="env.HOSTNAME" value="${env.COMPUTERNAME}"/>
>
> When running with -v, I get this:
>
> [property] Loading Environment env.
> Property "env.COMPUTERNAME" has not been set
>
> And then the code below tries to import a property file that doesn't exist:
>
> <if>
> <equals arg1="${env.HOSTNAME}" arg2="buildMachine"/>
> <then>
> <import file="properties1.xml" />
> </then>
> <else>
> <import file="properties2.xml" />
> </else>
> </if>
>
> Anyone know of a way to make this work from an ssh call? Seems like it would
> be fine because even when I'm running this from a manual login, it's after
> sshing from my own machine to this build machine...
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: "Perrier, Nathan" <nperr...@ptc.com>
> To: Ant Users List <user@ant.apache.org>; Eric Fetzer <elstonk...@yahoo.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 7, 2012 1:17 PM
> Subject: RE: Build directly on machine vs. SSH to machine and start build
>
> Add -v in your call (or -debug):
>
> ant [-v|-d] -f build.xml
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Fetzer [mailto:elstonk...@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 2:12 PM
> To: Ant Users
> Subject: Build directly on machine vs. SSH to machine and start build
>
> This is very strange to me. Here are the 2 scenarios.
>
> Scenario 1:
> 1) Log on to buildMachine as user builduser
> 2) >bash
> 3) >cd /my/builddir
> 3) >/opt/apache-ant-1.7.1/bin/ant -f build.xml -Dfull.buildnumber=3.0.2.8
> 4) Build succeeds without issue
>
> Scenario 2:
> 1) From a different machine:
> >ssh -f builduser@buildMachine ". ~/.bash_profile;cd
> /app/rosstr/build;/opt/apache-ant-1.7.1/bin/ant -f build.xml
> -Dfull.buildnumber=3.0.2.8
> 2) There are 7 different apps that get built in the build.xml file. Each
> get called by the ant task. Only one of them fails with no indication as to
> why it failed.
>
> I've tried loads of stuff. I echo just before it hits the ant call and the
> echo outputs. I've retyped the ant line several times without success. I've
> changed the order of this particular ant call and it doesn't matter, it fails
> when it gets to it. Here's the code that crashes:
>
> <ant antfile="BuildReports.xml"/>
>
> Not exactly a tough thing to do. Call the BuildReports.xml file in the
> current directory... Anyone have any idea what this could be or what I could
> do to debug this? There is no verbose=true on the ant task...
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
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