Question

I am currently triggering Perl scripts using Jenkins/Hudson, however, I am struggling to find out what the proper exception is to throw some Jenkins picks it up. In the console it shows that the perl script errors like it’s suppose to, but Jenkins finishes with Build Success.

I have tried numerous things from the die command and a system print of exit 1 and it still doesn’t appear to be catching any of it.

Any help would be great! Thanks in advanced!

Answer 1

Jenkins considers a build step that exits with non-zero to have failed. It should be enough to die()

Maybe you have another shell command after perl which exits with zero? Jenkins does not see every exit code from the individual processes. Jenkins simply places the script you enter into the build step area into a temporary file and calls /bin/sh on the temp file. It is up to you to make the script exit with non-zero when the script fails.

The easiest way to do it is to begin your script with #!/bin/sh -xe. If you study the shell man page, you will see the -e option makes shell stop the script whenever any process exits with non-zero.