MS-DOS path warning with maven

[David Balažic]

On 10 May 2010 16:44, Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@bopp.net> wrote:
> On 5/10/2010 4:21 AM, David Balažic wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I have cygwin 1.7.5 (up to date as of now) on Windows XP Pro SP3 and
>> maven v 2.2.1.
>>
>> When I start mvn from a shell (I use mintty running bash): i get a warning:
>>
>>
>> cygwin warning:
>>   MS-DOS style path detected: F:\winsux\prg\apache-maven-2.2.1/boot/
>>   Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/f/winsux/prg/apache-maven-2.2.1/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
>>
>>
>> I found it strange, since maven is cygwin aware and should use cygwin paths.
>>
>> Is this some bug?
>
> I'm unable to reproduce your problem when running a simple mvn -version
> command.  After looking through the mvn script included with the Maven
> installation, I also can't see anywhere that script would directly
> attempt to use a Windows-style path where a POSIX style path would be
> required to avoid this warning.
>
> My best guess is that you are either defining the JAVACMD environment
> variable to point to a Cygwin program, defining JAVA_HOME to point to a
> Cygwin-based JRE/JDK, or have a Cygwin-based java.exe in your path.  In
> all of those cases, the mvn script will attempt to feed Windows-style
> paths to a Cygwin program, and that would likely trigger this warning.
> If that's not the problem, it could be that whatever target you're
> trying to run ultimately attempts to run some Cygwin program with a
> Windows-style path.  In all cases, Cygwin is functioning as designed.
>
> To diagnose the problem further, you need to first eliminate all of your
> build logic as the cause.  Running mvn -version as I did should do that
> for you.  Then make sure that you're not somehow causing a Cygwin
> program to be used in place of Sun's java.exe as noted above.  If you do
> that and still see this warning, then you need to talk with the Maven
> developers and/or the developers of whatever Maven plugins you're using.

mvn -version also gives the message.


$ which -a java
/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/java


$ set | grep JAVA
JAVA_HOME='C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_20'

I'm not caiming there is somethng wrong with cygwin, jut find it
surprising to get this warning with a cygwin-aware  program (mvn).

Regards,
David

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