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  2. JENKINS-21451

Ant build step does not work on AIX slave

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    • Icon: Bug Bug
    • Resolution: Unresolved
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    • ant-plugin
    • Jenkins version: 1.539
      Slave: AIX 5.3, JRE 1.6.0 IBM

      I'm trying to execute an Ant build script on a AIX slave where I don't have administrator rights. JAVA_HOME and ANT_HOME are not set by default, so I had to set them (and add them to PATH) in the node configuration.
      I deliberately did not configure an Ant installation, neither on the master nor on the slave.

      This is the stacktrace that I'm seeing:

      [aixtest] $ ant -version
      FATAL: command execution failed.Maybe you need to configure the job to choose one of your Ant installations?
      java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "ant" (in directory "/home/xxx/jenkins/workspace/aixtest"): error=2, A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
      	at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:471)
      	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.Launcher$RemoteLaunchCallable.call(Launcher.java:932)
      	at hudson.Launcher$RemoteLaunchCallable.call(Launcher.java:899)
      	at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:118)
      	at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:48)
      	at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:287)
      	at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:72)
      	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:314)
      	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:149)
      	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:897)
      	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:919)
      	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:738)
      Caused by: java.io.IOException: error=2, A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
      	at java.lang.UNIXProcess.forkAndExec(Native Method)
      	at java.lang.UNIXProcess.<init>(UNIXProcess.java:53)
      	at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:112)
      	at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:464)
      	... 15 more
      

      Oddly enough, if I add an "Execute shell command" build step right before the Ant build step with the command "ant -version" it works:

      [aixtest] $ /bin/sh -xe /tmp/hudson5535938035142068913.sh
      + ant -version
      Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.2 compiled on July 8 2013
      

      I debugged both the shell command and the ant execution but could not find any obvious difference. Both are calling something like:

      launcher.launch().cmds(args).envs(env).stdout(aca).pwd(buildFilePath.getParent()).join();
      

      In both cases the environment variables seem to be set correctly.

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            fredg Fred G
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