I think this problem should have been noted by someone else so maybe it has been already discussed even if I have not found any reference in the mailing list archives.
I'll give a sample of a session on a clean windows machine, no previous maven installation.
I've downloaded maven-1.0-rc1.tar.gz an decommpressed to c:\java\maven-1.0-rc1.
Then I do the following in a command box:
C:\cd federico\eom C:\federico\eom>set MAVEN_HOME=c:\java\maven-1.0-rc1 C:\federico\eom>set PATH=%MAVEN_HOME%\bin Next I invoke Maven: C:\federico\eom>maven __ __ | \/ |__ _Apache__ ___ | |\/| / _` \ V / -_) ' \ ~ intelligent projects ~ |_| |_\__,_|\_/\___|_||_| v. 1.0-rc1-SNAPSHOT
Directory c:javamaven-1.0-rc1\repository doesn't exists. Attempting to create.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Downloading ant-1.5.3-1.jar.
[...]
Two things:
- maven can't find c:\java\maven-1.0-rc1\repository, even if it exists
- maven creates the directory C:\federico\eom\javamaven-1.0-rc1, so backslashes are lost
Trying to use c:/java/maven-1.0-rc1 (forward slashes) for MAVEN_HOME fails as the check for existence in maven.bat fails;
C:\federico\eom>set MAVEN_HOME=c:/java/maven-1.0-rc1 C:\federico\eom>maven ERROR: MAVEN_HOME is set to an invalid directory. MAVEN_HOME = c:/java/maven-1.0-rc1 Please set the MAVEN_HOME variable in your environment to match the location of the Maven installation
beta-9 works fine, but I've some probelms with plugins so I tried to switch to rc1.
Thank you very much Federico
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