Thanks Very Much it turned out to be, I finally found out 2 hours afterwards, that unlike other platforms the shell interpreter has to be specified. add the line to the shell and all is ok.
TIA, \|/ Larry (. .) _____ooO-(_)-Ooo_____ -----Original Message----- From: Tom Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 11:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FW: Using ant on Redhat/S390 Exec format error implies that the binary you are trying to execute is incompatible with the platform (like trying to run an Intel binary on a Z Arch machine, for example ;) ). Ant is creating a new process (via fork() ) and then trying to execute "something" inside that process that isn't right for the platform. If I were you I would examine the target/dependency rules and see exactly what it is trying to do. Davis, Larry wrote: > Sent from VMESA List > > -----Original Message----- > From: Hahne, Ronald > Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 21:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Using ant on Redhat/S390 > > Any one using ant on above referenced platform having trouble with ant task: > <exec executable="${aShellFile}"/> > > When ever I execute ant with this task I get the following error msg > from > ant: > [exec] Warning: UNIXProcess.forkAndExec native error: Exec format error > [exec] Result: 255 > > Does any one have any ideas about this? > > Thank you in advance, > Ron Hahne > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390