On 10 May 2010 16:44, Jeremy Bopp <jer...@bopp.net> wrote: > On 5/10/2010 4:21 AM, David Balažic wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I have cygwin 1.7.5 (up to date as of now) on Windows XP Pro SP3 and >> maven v 2.2.1. >> >> When I start mvn from a shell (I use mintty running bash): i get a warning: >> >> >> cygwin warning: >> MS-DOS style path detected: F:\winsux\prg\apache-maven-2.2.1/boot/ >> Preferred POSIX equivalent is: >> /cygdrive/f/winsux/prg/apache-maven-2.2.1/boot/ >> CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this >> warning. >> Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths: >> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames >> >> >> I found it strange, since maven is cygwin aware and should use cygwin paths. >> >> Is this some bug? > > I'm unable to reproduce your problem when running a simple mvn -version > command. After looking through the mvn script included with the Maven > installation, I also can't see anywhere that script would directly > attempt to use a Windows-style path where a POSIX style path would be > required to avoid this warning. > > My best guess is that you are either defining the JAVACMD environment > variable to point to a Cygwin program, defining JAVA_HOME to point to a > Cygwin-based JRE/JDK, or have a Cygwin-based java.exe in your path. In > all of those cases, the mvn script will attempt to feed Windows-style > paths to a Cygwin program, and that would likely trigger this warning. > If that's not the problem, it could be that whatever target you're > trying to run ultimately attempts to run some Cygwin program with a > Windows-style path. In all cases, Cygwin is functioning as designed. > > To diagnose the problem further, you need to first eliminate all of your > build logic as the cause. Running mvn -version as I did should do that > for you. Then make sure that you're not somehow causing a Cygwin > program to be used in place of Sun's java.exe as noted above. If you do > that and still see this warning, then you need to talk with the Maven > developers and/or the developers of whatever Maven plugins you're using.
mvn -version also gives the message. $ which -a java /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/java $ set | grep JAVA JAVA_HOME='C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_20' I'm not caiming there is somethng wrong with cygwin, jut find it surprising to get this warning with a cygwin-aware program (mvn). Regards, David -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple