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Posted to ivy-user@ant.apache.org by Jonathan Williams <sp...@gmail.com> on 2011/01/13 17:15:27 UTC
Re: Retrieve symlink="true" on Windows
Hi Maarten,
My apologies for not responding more promptly. I got sidetracked from this
over the holidays. Here's an example of console output from the ivy:retreive
ant call. I see at the bottom of the log that it thinks the symlink failed
to create and throws an exception, even though this is not the case.
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Maarten Coene <ma...@yahoo.com>wrote:
> Could you send us the console output when running Ant in verbose mode?
>
> Maarten
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Jonathan Williams <sp...@gmail.com>
> To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org
> Sent: Thu, December 9, 2010 6:14:38 PM
> Subject: Retrieve symlink="true" on Windows
>
> Hi,
>
> We are attempting to implement our build on Windows after having the
> ant+ivy
> solution working well on Linux for about a week now. We were hoping to use
> symlinking for compile-time dependencies as on Linux, but we are getting
> odd
> behavior. After jumping through a few hoops with Cygwin 1.7, Ivy appears to
> be
> creating working symlinks in our classpath directory for each project.
> However
> it also appears to be copying the .jar files also! (see attached jpg)
>
> Has anyone seen this before or have experience with using Ivy symlinks on
> Windows? Thanks.
>
> -Jonathan
>
>
>
>
>
Re: Retrieve symlink="true" on Windows
Posted by Maarten Coene <ma...@yahoo.com>.
The problem with cygwin symbolic links are that they are not supported natively
by Windows.
This means that for instance javac.exe will treat these symlink files as regular
files, instead of symbolic links to the real jar file. This will result in
compilation errors.
IVY-1165 is a request to detect this and perform a real copy instead.
Maarten
----- Original Message ----
From: Jonathan Williams <sp...@gmail.com>
To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org
Sent: Mon, January 17, 2011 5:58:32 PM
Subject: Re: Retrieve symlink="true" on Windows
Hi Maarten,
I had done some digging and come across
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-1165 from about a year ago that
seemed to suggest that this was possible? Or am I missing some later issue
that blocked it from working again?
-Jonathan
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Maarten Coene <ma...@yahoo.com>wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> sorry I didn't think of it before, but as far as I know, Ivy doesn't
> support
> Cygwin symlinking.
>
> Maarten
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Jonathan Williams <sp...@gmail.com>
> To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org
> Sent: Thu, January 13, 2011 5:15:27 PM
> Subject: Re: Retrieve symlink="true" on Windows
>
> Hi Maarten,
>
> My apologies for not responding more promptly. I got sidetracked from this
> over
> the holidays. Here's an example of console output from the ivy:retreive
> ant
> call. I see at the bottom of the log that it thinks the symlink failed to
> create and throws an exception, even though this is not the case.
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Maarten Coene <ma...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> Could you send us the console output when running Ant in verbose mode?
> >
> >Maarten
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >________________________________
> >From: Jonathan Williams <sp...@gmail.com>
> >To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org
> >Sent: Thu, December 9, 2010 6:14:38 PM
> >Subject: Retrieve symlink="true" on Windows
> >
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >We are attempting to implement our build on Windows after having the
> ant+ivy
> >solution working well on Linux for about a week now. We were hoping to use
> >symlinking for compile-time dependencies as on Linux, but we are getting
> odd
> >behavior. After jumping through a few hoops with Cygwin 1.7, Ivy appears
> to be
> >creating working symlinks in our classpath directory for each project.
> However
> >it also appears to be copying the .jar files also! (see attached jpg)
> >
> >Has anyone seen this before or have experience with using Ivy symlinks on
> >Windows? Thanks.
> >
> >-Jonathan
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>
Re: Retrieve symlink="true" on Windows
Posted by Jonathan Williams <sp...@gmail.com>.
Hi Maarten,
I had done some digging and come across
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-1165 from about a year ago that
seemed to suggest that this was possible? Or am I missing some later issue
that blocked it from working again?
-Jonathan
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Maarten Coene <ma...@yahoo.com>wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> sorry I didn't think of it before, but as far as I know, Ivy doesn't
> support
> Cygwin symlinking.
>
> Maarten
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Jonathan Williams <sp...@gmail.com>
> To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org
> Sent: Thu, January 13, 2011 5:15:27 PM
> Subject: Re: Retrieve symlink="true" on Windows
>
> Hi Maarten,
>
> My apologies for not responding more promptly. I got sidetracked from this
> over
> the holidays. Here's an example of console output from the ivy:retreive
> ant
> call. I see at the bottom of the log that it thinks the symlink failed to
> create and throws an exception, even though this is not the case.
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Maarten Coene <ma...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> Could you send us the console output when running Ant in verbose mode?
> >
> >Maarten
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >________________________________
> >From: Jonathan Williams <sp...@gmail.com>
> >To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org
> >Sent: Thu, December 9, 2010 6:14:38 PM
> >Subject: Retrieve symlink="true" on Windows
> >
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >We are attempting to implement our build on Windows after having the
> ant+ivy
> >solution working well on Linux for about a week now. We were hoping to use
> >symlinking for compile-time dependencies as on Linux, but we are getting
> odd
> >behavior. After jumping through a few hoops with Cygwin 1.7, Ivy appears
> to be
> >creating working symlinks in our classpath directory for each project.
> However
> >it also appears to be copying the .jar files also! (see attached jpg)
> >
> >Has anyone seen this before or have experience with using Ivy symlinks on
> >Windows? Thanks.
> >
> >-Jonathan
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>
Re: Retrieve symlink="true" on Windows
Posted by Maarten Coene <ma...@yahoo.com>.
Hi Jonathan,
sorry I didn't think of it before, but as far as I know, Ivy doesn't support
Cygwin symlinking.
Maarten
________________________________
From: Jonathan Williams <sp...@gmail.com>
To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org
Sent: Thu, January 13, 2011 5:15:27 PM
Subject: Re: Retrieve symlink="true" on Windows
Hi Maarten,
My apologies for not responding more promptly. I got sidetracked from this over
the holidays. Here's an example of console output from the ivy:retreive ant
call. I see at the bottom of the log that it thinks the symlink failed to
create and throws an exception, even though this is not the case.
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Maarten Coene <ma...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Could you send us the console output when running Ant in verbose mode?
>
>Maarten
>
>
>
>
>
>________________________________
>From: Jonathan Williams <sp...@gmail.com>
>To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org
>Sent: Thu, December 9, 2010 6:14:38 PM
>Subject: Retrieve symlink="true" on Windows
>
>
>Hi,
>
>We are attempting to implement our build on Windows after having the ant+ivy
>solution working well on Linux for about a week now. We were hoping to use
>symlinking for compile-time dependencies as on Linux, but we are getting odd
>behavior. After jumping through a few hoops with Cygwin 1.7, Ivy appears to be
>creating working symlinks in our classpath directory for each project. However
>it also appears to be copying the .jar files also! (see attached jpg)
>
>Has anyone seen this before or have experience with using Ivy symlinks on
>Windows? Thanks.
>
>-Jonathan
>
>
>
>