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Posted to dev@ant.apache.org by jk...@apache.org on 2007/04/15 19:07:49 UTC
svn commit: r529015 - /ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/exec.html
Author: jkf
Date: Sun Apr 15 10:07:49 2007
New Revision: 529015
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=529015
Log:
Bug 42055, improved cygwin documentation.
Modified:
ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/exec.html
Modified: ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/exec.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/exec.html?view=diff&rev=529015&r1=529014&r2=529015
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--- ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/exec.html (original)
+++ ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/exec.html Sun Apr 15 10:07:49 2007
@@ -63,9 +63,14 @@
</pre></blockquote>
<h4>Cygwin Users</h4>
-<p>In general the <code><exec></code> 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.
+<p>The <code><exec></code> 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 <code>cygwin1.dll</code>). The only
+work-around for this is to compile a JVM under Cygwin (at your own risk).
+See for instance
+<a href="http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/build/README-builds.html#cygwin">
+sun jdk 6 build instructions for cygwin</a>.
</p>
<h4>OpenVMS Users</h4>
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