Recently I ran across a MS-DOS style path warning when
trying to run Scala for the first time in cygwin.
It looks like it's working,
Here is the text of the warning.
cygwin warning:
MS-DOS style path detected: C:\Program
Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_25/bin/java
Preferred POSIX equivalent is:
/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Java/jdk1.6.0_25/bin/java
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
Looking around I found this site http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11972562/how-can-i-get-cygwin-to-accurately-read-my-windows-environment-variables
[1]
Which suggest using the cygwin utility took cygpath.
In my case I have defined
JAVA_HOME in my System Properties
Cygwin is using this path
If I run the following command
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> echo $JAVA_HOME
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It returns the MS-DOS style
path.
You can use the cygpath command
to convert paths from MS-DOS style to unix style.
If you run this command you
will see how it works.
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> cygpath
$JAVA_HOME
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You can see how it converts the
path.
One way to permanently fix this
is to edit the .bash_profile.
Open the .bash_profile
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> vi
.bash_profile
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And add the following to the
bottom.
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export JAVA_HOME=$(
cygpath "JAVA_HOME" )
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Opening a new Cygwin window and
running scala -version results in
Problem fixed!
References
[1] How can I get Cygwin to
accurately read my Windows environment variables?
Visited 1/2013
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