From a069b78495ed198cd341a106731778edc930f5f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jacobus Martinus Kruithof Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:07:49 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Bug 42055, improved cygwin documentation. supplied by Daniel Santos git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@529015 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- docs/manual/CoreTasks/exec.html | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/exec.html b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/exec.html index e2aef8b05..5f9ca6547 100644 --- a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/exec.html +++ b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/exec.html @@ -63,9 +63,14 @@ types listed in the environment variable PATHEXT. That is only used by the shell

Cygwin Users

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In general the <exec> task will not understand paths such as /bin/sh for -the executable parameter. This is because the Java VM in which Ant is running is a -Windows executable and is not aware of Cygwin conventions. +

The <exec> task will not understand paths such as /bin/sh +for the executable parameter. This is because the Java VM in which Ant is +running is a standard Windows executable and is not aware of the Cygwin +environment (i.e., doesn't load cygwin1.dll). The only +work-around for this is to compile a JVM under Cygwin (at your own risk). +See for instance + +sun jdk 6 build instructions for cygwin.

OpenVMS Users