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Ionic Error: An error occurred while running subprocess cordova

See original GitHub issue

Description:

Running ionic cordova build... command errors with output like below

...
:cdvBuildDebug

BUILD SUCCESSFUL

Total time: 8.893 secs
Command finished with error code 0: /Users/marqueswoodson/Projects/platforms/android/gradlew cdvBuildDebug,-b,/Users/marqueswoodson/Projects/platforms/android/build.gradle,-Dorg.gradle.daemon=true,-Dorg.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048m,-Pandroid.useDeprecatedNdk=true,-PcdvCompileSdkVersion=android-28
Built the following apk(s):
	/Users/marqueswoodson/Projects/platforms/android/build/outputs/apk/android-debug.apk
No scripts found for hook "after_compile".
No scripts found for hook "after_build".
[ERROR] An error occurred while running subprocess cordova.

        cordova build android --verbose -- --gradleArg=-PcdvCompileSdkVersion=android-28 exited with exit
        code 1.

        Re-running this command with the --verbose flag may provide more information.
  ionic:cli-framework:utils:process onBeforeExit handler: process.exit received +0ms
  ionic:cli-framework:utils:process onBeforeExit handler: running 2 queued functions +0ms
  ionic:cli-framework:utils:process onBeforeExit handler: exiting (exit code 1) +72ms

The actual build does work, as you can see above. There’s no errors in the output.

Steps to Reproduce:

Try building an android project with ionic 4.x.

If I run the above without the ionic keyword:

cordova build android --verbose -- --gradleArg=-PcdvCompileSdkVersion=android-28

it works fine.

Output:

My ionic info:

Ionic:

   ionic (Ionic CLI) : 4.1.2 (/Users/marqueswoodson/.nvm/versions/node/v8.9.4/lib/node_modules/ionic)
   Ionic Framework   : unknown
   @ionic/v1-toolkit : 1.0.10

Cordova:

   cordova (Cordova CLI) : 7.1.0
   Cordova Platforms     : android 6.3.0
   Cordova Plugins       : no whitelisted plugins (25 plugins total)

System:

   Android SDK Tools : 26.1.1 (/Users/marqueswoodson/android-sdk)
   NodeJS            : v8.9.4 (/Users/marqueswoodson/.nvm/versions/node/v8.9.4/bin/node)
   npm               : 2.15.12
   OS                : macOS High Sierra
   Xcode             : Xcode 10.0 Build version 10A255

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