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wrapper script chokes with spaces in cygwin home dir

           Summary: wrapper script chokes with spaces in cygwin home dir
           Product: Ant
           Version: 1.5
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows NT/2K
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: Wrapper scripts
        AssignedTo: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: mikeburr@mindspring.com


I have my Windows home directory (c:\Documents and Settings\mburr\My Documents) 
mounted as /home/mburr under cygwin.  When the (patched) Ant 1.5 ant wrapper 
script sets my home directory in ANT_OPTS:

  ANT_OPTS="$ANT_OPTS -Dcygwin.user.home="`cygpath --path --windows "$HOME"`

and then subsequently uses tries to pass it to $JAVACMD, the bash parser splits 
$ANT_OPTS after c:\Documents and java winds up trying to load/run a class 
named "and".

I am by no means an expert in shell scripts, but I couldn't find any obvious 
way to add quotes in/around ANT_OPTS to make this work right.

As a workaround, adding --short-name to the cygpath command generates a path 
that does not contain spaces and seems to make things work correctly.  Someone 
smarter than me can probably come up with a more elegant approach, though.

I have not checked 1.5.1 or 1.6 to see if this problem still exists in those 
versions.

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