During retreieve: Creation of symlinks problematic in Windows with Cygwin 1.7
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Key: IVY-1165
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-1165
Project: Ivy
Issue Type: Bug
Affects Versions: 2.1.0-RC2
Environment: Windows 7 64 bit
Cygwin 1.7
Cygwin's bin directory on PATH
Reporter: John Brandy
On Windows with the Cygwin 1.7 bin directory on the PATH, Ivy will create a
~1kb "symlink" file instead of copying the jar to the ivylib directory. This
causes the retrieve process to fail.
As described in [IVY-353|http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-353], the
creation of symlinks with cygwin was problematic for Windows systems. The fix
as I understand it was to attempt to create a symlink, if that failed (the
expected file did not exist) then copy the jar. That worked with the default
configuration of Cygwin 1.5 which attempted to create Windows link (file.lnk)
files. However as of 1.7 cygwin does not default to that behavior anymore and
now Ivy fails in this case.
For either version, if cygwin's environment option "winsymlinks" is turned to
off -- which 1.7 defaults to -- then Ivy won't successfully retrieve due to
thinking that the creation of a symlink was successful.
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