Forrest failure under Cygwin

[Mark Eggers <it...@yahoo.com>]

I recently upgraded Cygwin on a Windows/2000
Professional machine to:

bash-3.1$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 phoenix 1.5.20(0.156/4/2) 2006-07-01
02:22 i686 Cygwin

bash-3.1$ cygpath --version
cygpath (cygwin) 1.42
Path Conversion Utility
Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
2005 Red Hat, Inc.
Compiled on Jul  1 2006

bash-3.1$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.1.17(6)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Forrest stopped working and gave the following error.

bash-3.1$ pwd
/cygdrive/c/src/forrest/site-author
bash-3.1$ echo $FORREST_HOME
C:\src\forrest
bash-3.1$ forrest
Apache Forrest.  Run 'forrest -projecthelp' to list
options

Buildfile: C:\src\forrest\main\forrest.build.xml

BUILD FAILED
Target
`c:/src/forrest/lib/endorsed/jakarta-regexp-1.4.jar'
does not exist in this project. 

Total time: 1 second

After investigating, it seems that the loop populating
the CLASSPATH was not being executed.

It appears that the bash shell no longer understands 

C:\src\forrest/lib/endorsed/*.jar

I made the following quick hack to
$FORREST_HOME/bin/forrest:

bash-3.1$ svn diff forrest
Index: forrest
===================================================================
--- forrest	(revision 419404)
+++ forrest	(working copy)
@@ -70,9 +70,11 @@
 if [ "$cygwin" = "true" ] ; then
   S=';'
   FORREST_DOT_HOME=`cygpath -w "$FORREST_HOME"`
+  FORREST_SHELL_HOME=`cygpath -u "$FORREST_HOME"`
 else
   S=':'
   FORREST_DOT_HOME=$FORREST_HOME
+  FOREST_SHELL_HOME=$FORREST_HOME
 fi
 
 # set the ant file to use
@@ -82,7 +84,7 @@
 export CP
 unset CLASSPATH
 
-for i in $FORREST_HOME/lib/endorsed/*.jar; do
+for i in $FORREST_SHELL_HOME/lib/endorsed/*.jar; do
   if [ "$cygwin" = "true" ] ; then
     LIB=`cygpath -w $i`
   else

This seems to fix the problem.

Is someone else interested in verifying this behavior?
 I don't want to open an issue and supply a patch if
this is just an environmental artifact.

Mark
just my two cents . . . .

/mde/

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Re: Forrest failure under Cygwin

[Ross Gardler <rg...@apache.org>]

Mark Eggers wrote:
> Is someone else interested in verifying this behavior?
>  I don't want to open an issue and supply a patch if
> this is just an environmental artifact.

I have a windows/cygwin machine and can test this, but not in the 
immediate future.

Please do open an issue and applu the patch. It will get lost in the 
mailing list. Don't worry if it does turn out to be an environment 
artifact. Having it in the issue tracker will help others who may come 
accross it and will enable us to consider adding a workaround.

Thanks for your detailed analysis nad proposed solution.

Ross