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John Brandy commented on IVY-1165:
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Tested the latest change Maarten and everything works!
Thanks!
> 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
> Assignee: Maarten Coene
> Fix For: trunk
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> 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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