[HIVE-14193] No mention of Cygwin requirement for developers on Windows

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Documentation
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Dean Gurvitz
• Created: 08/Jul/16 07:07
• Updated: 08/Jul/16 07:07

Description

When initially building hive for Eclipse on Windows using the command:
"mvn clean package eclipse:clean eclipse:eclipse -Pitests -DskipTests -DdownloadSources -DdownloadJavadocs"
as specified here, the build will often fail for new users as it tries to use Cygwin's bash.exe. This requirement should be specified in the documentation. Note: <cygwin-folder>\bin must be manually added to the path variable in addition to the regular installation.