Log corruption?

[shafjac]

It appears that one of the steps in my build process is corrupting my log file. The manifestation of this corruption is that this step does not get completely logged, and all the XML in the document before this step is deleted.

In this case, I have it running as the first step in my build process. It is a "Set Macro" action, the name of the macro is "BUILDFOLDER" and the value for it is the following:

["%BUILDROOT%\" & Year(Now) & "-" & vbld_PadLeft(CStr(Month(Now)), 2, "0") & "-" & vbld_PadLeft(CStr(Day(Now)), 2, "0") & " " & vbld_PadLeft(CStr(Hour(Now)), 2, "0") & vbld_PadLeft(CStr(Minute(now)), 2, "0")]

The beginning of my log file output is:

[ BLANK LINE ]
<status code='0'>Completed</status>
</step>

There's no XML declaration, no <log> element, no start <step> tag, nothing before that.

This becomes a big problem when I try to transform the XML document via HTML because the parser can't load it and thus can't transform it.

I've tried moving this step further along in the build process, and when I do that, it still deletes all the text above it in the log file. I've also tried logging to a text file instead of an XML file, and it still doesn't log this step (I'd really prefer XML anyway). I've tried turning off logging for this step (using Logging.bld as an example), and that doesn't seem to do anything.

Does anyone have any ideas?