We've encountered an Ant bug over in JDOM land. I'm stumped on how to
fix it.
Briefly, Exec.java assumes that "windows" means "Windows NT" and
invokes System.exec with a command line that breaks on Windows 95/98.
----- Forwarded message from Jason Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
The issue is that the Ant Exec.java task uses the "cmd" syntax as a way
of handling change of directory duties:
if (myos.toLowerCase().indexOf("windows") >= 0) {
if (!dir.equals(project.resolveFile(".")))
command = "cmd /c cd " + dir + " && " + command;
This codepath has probably never before been exercised on Win98 because
it seems to occur only when a "cd" is necessary. The original developer
probably used NT to test, and I did likewise for the jdom-contrib area.
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At the very least, it should use the %COMSPEC% environment variable to
identify command.com or cmd.exe as appropriate. But even that won't
fix it, since "&&" syntax is not supported in command.com.
Good luck! Please let me know if you make any progress fixing this.
- Alex
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