Adding to what Ed said, we don't run regression tests on Cygwin, so Hive on Cygwin is de facto unmaintained.
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com>wrote: > It did work with cygwin at one point but since it is rarely used in that > environment it is not well supported. Your best bet is QEMU or Vmware > emulating a linux environment. > > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Siddharth Tiwari < > siddharth.tiw...@live.com> wrote: > >> hey carl, >> >> Isint there any way to enable it, if not, what is this error about ? what >> is the problem ? >> >> **------------------------** >> *Cheers !!!* >> *Siddharth Tiwari* >> Have a refreshing day !!! >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> From: c...@cloudera.com >> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:34:03 -0700 >> Subject: Re: Hive DDL issue >> To: user@hive.apache.org >> >> Hive does not work on Cygwin. >> >> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Siddharth Tiwari < >> siddharth.tiw...@live.com> wrote: >> >> >> encountering following issur pls help, on cygwin windows >> >> hive> show tables; >> FAILED: Hive Internal Error: >> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException(java.net.URISyntaxException: Relative >> path in absolute URI: file:C:/cygwin/tmp//siddharth/hive_2011-08-18_ >> 04-08-25_850_5502285238716420526) >> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: java.net.URISyntaxException: Relative >> path in absolute URI: >> file:C:/cygwin/tmp//siddharth/hive_2011-08-18_04-08-25_850_550228523871642 >> 0526 >> at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.initialize(Path.java:140) >> at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.<init>(Path.java:132) >> at >> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Context.getScratchDir(Context.java:142) >> at >> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Context.getLocalScratchDir(Context.java:168) >> at >> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Context.getLocalTmpFileURI(Context.java:282) >> at >> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.DDLSemanticAnalyzer.analyzeInternal(DDLSemanticAnalyzer.java:205) >> at >> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.BaseSemanticAnalyzer.analyze(BaseSemanticAnalyzer.java:238) >> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:340) >> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:736) >> at >> org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:164) >> at >> org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:241) >> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:456) >> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) >> at >> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) >> at >> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) >> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) >> at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:156) >> Caused by: java.net.URISyntaxException: Relative path in absolute URI: >> file:C:/cygwin/tmp//siddharth/hive_2011-08-18_04-08-25_850_5502285238716420526 >> at java.net.URI.checkPath(URI.java:1787) >> at java.net.URI.<init>(URI.java:735) >> at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.initialize(Path.java:137) >> ... 16 more >> >> >> **------------------------** >> *Cheers !!!* >> *Siddharth Tiwari* >> Have a refreshing day !!! >> >> >> >
