building from the command line silently fails

[ken rentz]

We have a nightly script that among other things, produces an install via the command line capabilities of IA. A few days ago, the installs created by the script started to fail, while the installs created manually on the same machine worked perfectly.

we were finally able to track the problem down to some relative paths referencing include scripts. Since the command line was started from a different starting directory, the paths pointed to non-existent files. while we were able to fix this problem, it brings up the question as to why the installs were created in the first place. It would seem to me that if an include file is missing, that the build should fail, as the resulting install will more than likely not be usable, and trying to programatically smoke test an install is a lot harder than checking a return code indicating a failure.