[GROOVY-3209] startGroovy amended to use /bin/sh rather than requiring /bin/bash does not work

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Incomplete
• Affects Version/s: 1.5.7, 1.6-beta-2, 1.7-beta-1
• Environment: Cygwin + Groovy trunk (also assumed to be problematic for 1.5.x and 1.6.x) -- only affects Cygwin executions.
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Dr. Russel Winder
• Created: 17/Dec/08 05:46
• Updated: 01/Feb/13 10:44
• Resolved: 01/Feb/13 10:44

Description

The new code to do argument hacking in startGroovy for Cygwin (that replace Bash specific stuff) seems not to work anything like expected:

|> groovy -v
/cygdrive/h/users/russel/lib/Java/groovy/bin/startGroovy: eval: line 227: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/cygdrive/h/users/russel/lib/Java/groovy/bin/startGroovy: eval: line 227: `args0=cygpath (cygwin) 1.42.4.1 Path Conversion Utility Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 20
04, 2005 Red Hat, Inc. Compiled on Jun 12 2008'
Caught: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: H:\users\russel\Progs\OddsByLanguage\Groovy (H:\users\russel\Progs\OddsByLanguage\Groovy) is a directory not a Groovy source file.
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