Recent change in cygwin appears to prevent the classpath for loop in the forrest command from working

• Key: FOR-905
• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Minor
• Assignee: Ross Gardler
• Reporter: Mark Eggers
• Component/s: Core operations
• Affects Version/s: 0.8
• Fix Version/s: 0.9-dev

Description

I recently upgraded Cygwin on a Windows/2000
Professional machine to:

bash-3.1$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 phoenix 1.5.20(0.156/4/2) 2006-07-01
02:22 i686 Cygwin

bash-3.1$ cygpath --version
cygpath (cygwin) 1.42
Path Conversion Utility
Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
2005 Red Hat, Inc.
Compiled on Jul 1 2006

bash-3.1$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.1.17(6)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Forrest stopped working and gave the following error.

bash-3.1$ pwd
/cygdrive/c/src/forrest/site-author
bash-3.1$ echo $FORREST_HOME
C:\src\forrest
bash-3.1$ forrest
Apache Forrest. Run 'forrest -projecthelp' to list
options

Buildfile: C:\src\forrest\main\forrest.build.xml

BUILD FAILED
Target
`c:/src/forrest/lib/endorsed/jakarta-regexp-1.4.jar'
does not exist in this project.

Total time: 1 second

After investigating, it seems that the loop populating
the CLASSPATH was not being executed.

It appears that the bash shell no longer understands

C:\src\forrest/lib/endorsed/*.jar

Comments

[Mark Eggers]

Patch to handle apparent change in Cygwin's behavior

[Gavin]

Someone who uses Forrest with Cygwin should try this.

In addition, may not be relevent but I got this in an email :-

<quote>...but as I understand it, Cygwin recently changed the default for how it handles line endings. This caused a lot of scripts that I had which contained DOS line endings to break (even blank lines caused "syntax error:
unexpected end of file"), as well as other problems that didn't seem to go away even after converting my line endings to unix style. I got the problem to disappear (without ever really understanding it) by adding a system variable called "SHELLOPTS" with the value "igncr"...</quote>

Quote was by Steve Strobel.

Gav...

[Doron Cohen]

Thanks for this patch - just wanted to let you know that it was helpful!

After upgrading from Forrest 0.7 to 0.8, running Forrest for building Lucene Java docs failed with:
   Target `../apache-forrest-0.8/lib/endorsed/jakarta-regexp-1.4.jar' does not exist in this project.

Applying this patch solved the problem.

Thanks.
Doron

[Ross Gardler]

Applied with thanks