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The syntax of the command is incorrect

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Oleksiy Kononenko

21 Sep, 2020 08:57 PM

Dear support,

We recently started to have problems with our master builds, they all fail now
with the following error: "The syntax of the command is incorrect. Command exited with code 255",
see https://ci.appveyor.com/project/h2oops/datatable/builds/35326665 for example.

What is strange here, is that all the PR and release builds are green, and our appveyor.yml file
was successfully validated with your "Validate YAML configuration" tool.

The appveyor.yml we are using is here https://github.com/h2oai/datatable/blob/master/appveyor.yml
and the change we found is causing the problems is using "APPVEYOR_PULL_REQUEST_HEAD_REPO_BRANCH"
variable on the master build:
https://github.com/h2oai/datatable/commit/1c3372b2fd58f1c8e2108a9a7d1252055afee9d2

Before this change the build is green, after this change we get the above error.
Checking if this variable is defined before used doesn't help.

We would appreciate any help on this concern. Thanks a lot in advance!

Oleksiy

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 22 Sep, 2020 12:57 AM

   

   Hi Oleksiy,

   I've noticed you changed the config, so your builds are green again? Anyway, I'd recommend trying PowerShell for evaluating environment variables, for example (pseudo-code):

   install:
   - ps: <check env var values and set a new "result" environment variable>
   - cmd: if "%result%"=="something" command
   

   thus Windows batch cmd part is simple.

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2. Feodor Fitsner closed this discussion on 22 Nov, 2020 09:03 PM.