[jira] Commented: (BEEHIVE-403) ant build.dist.archives does not work from DOS window

["Kenneth Tam (JIRA)" <be...@incubator.apache.org>]

     [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEEHIVE-403?page=comments#action_60175 ]
     
Kenneth Tam commented on BEEHIVE-403:
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I'm using mks tar, which apparently doesn't suffer from this problem.  tar behaviour under Windows appears to be highly variable.  Thoughts on how to proceed here?  Maybe we need to better understand how the ant tar task fails under Windows.. for example, I know for certain that the archives it creates can't be unarchived by mks tar :(.


> ant build.dist.archives does not work from DOS window
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>
>          Key: BEEHIVE-403
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEEHIVE-403
>      Project: Beehive
>         Type: Bug
>   Components: Build
>     Versions: V1, V1Beta
>  Environment: Windows, DOS Shell, cygwin at end of my PATH and a drive letter in my paths
>     Reporter: Jim Cummings
>     Priority: Minor

>
> This is really 2 related problems:
> 1) When I run ant build.dist.archives from my DOS prompt, the .gz files do not generated.  There are errors that go by, but the build still thinks it is successful.  In distribution.xml, if you add a failonerror="true" attribute to the exec elements this lets it fail the build if tar failed.  Might want to do this for the 'svn' execs as well.
> 2) The other problem is why the .gz files are not getting generated.  My path is finding my cygwin GNU tar (version 1.13.25).  The cause is that tar is failing with this error:
>      [exec] D: Unknown Host
>      [exec] apache-beehive-incubating-svn-snapshot/docs/apidocs/classref_controls/org/apache/beehive/controls/api/bean/ControlInterface.html
>      [exec] tar (child): D\:\\beehive_trunk\\trunk\\build\\dist\\archives/apache-beehive-incubating-svn-snapshot.tar.gz: Cannot open: Input/Output error
>      [exec] tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> Apparently GNU tar fails with the "Unknown Host" error if you use drive letters in your file paths.  I tried taking it out of my BEEHIVE_HOME, but the drive letter crops up from somewhere else still.  If you add this as the 1st argument to the exec tar element it seems to fix the problem. 
>      <arg value="--force-local"/>

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