Hi, please take a look at <http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17721>. I can reprodice this bug, but I'm afraid that the proposed patch will break Cygwin - as I have no idea how it handles absolute paths.
The change would be in line 54 of the ant wrapper script (CVS HEAD), instead of if expr "$link" : '.*/.*' > /dev/null; then we'd use if expr "$link" : '^/.*' > /dev/null; then Oh, to run into this code, you must not set ANT_HOME and the script you invoke must be a symlink (is this possible on Cygwin?) to the real script. Stefan