[MNG-5538] mvn start script causes cygwin warning

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Affects Version/s: 3.1.1
• Component/s: Command Line
• Environment: windows 7 64bit, cygwin 1.7.25, mvn 3.1.1
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Christian Schulte
• Reporter: Martin Vavra
• Created: 23/Nov/13 13:42
• Updated: 29/Jan/17 14:54
• Resolved: 29/Jan/17 14:36

Description

The shell script mvn in the bin directory of maven does various tricks with the variable M2_HOME but before the last line (the JAVACMD) is executed, the value of M2_HOME contains the Windows-style path to maven.

One of the arguments to java.exe is:

-classpath "${M2_HOME}"/boot/plexus-classworlds-*.jar

The resolving of the asterisk is still done by the cygwin bash,
and since M2_HOME is windows-style at that time,
cygwin generates the following warning:

cygwin warning:
  MS-DOS style path detected: D:\apps\apache-maven-3.1.1/boot/
  Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/d/apps/apache-maven-3.1.1/boot/
  CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this warning.
  Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
    http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames

This can be fixed quite easily - attached please find my proposal.

Issue Links

• is superceded by: MNG-6163 Introduce CLASSWORLDS_JAR in shell startup scripts
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