Ant on Windows 7 is trucating a file path string, why?

Asked Nov 09 '13 at 17:51

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I have a problem with this ant target:

... ${build} is set.

<target name="x"">
  <echo message="build = ${build}/x.cpp" />
  <apply executable="perl" failonerror="true" parallel="true"
    skipemptyfilesets="true" forwardslash="true">

    <!-- ... other arg tags ... -->

    <arg value="-o"/>
    <arg file="${build}/x.cpp"/>
    <arg value="--error-printer"/>
    <arg value="--force-main"/>
    <arg value="--track-heap"/>
    <arg value="--trap-signals"/>
    <arg value="--trace-stack"/>

    <!-- ... other arg tags ... -->

    <fileset dir="." casesensitive="no">
      <include name="**/*.h"/>
    </fileset>

  </apply>
</target>

on execution (on Windows 7) I get this:

x:
     [echo] build = C:/Program Files/storage/Results/bin/x.cpp
    [apply] Cannot open input file "Files\storage\Results\bin\x.cpp"

Why? I've already replaced attribute file, with value and/or path having always the same (wrong) result.

asked Nov 09 '13 at 17:51

Filippo Lauria

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Try running Ant with the `-v` command-line switch, which should show you exactly what is being passed to the Perl. But it looks like your issue may be with the Perl. – martin clayton Nov 09 '13 at 18:35
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Try to overcome the blank in C:/Program Files means surround with '...' – Rebse Nov 09 '13 at 20:12
AFAIK, some programs have problem handling spaces in paths. – Dante WWWW Nov 11 '13 at 04:53
I guess, Perl is erroneusly "tokenizing" args string. – Filippo Lauria Nov 14 '13 at 18:46

Ant on Windows 7 is trucating a file path string, why?

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