Re: Cygwin Java (make install) Patch

> Jason Tishler writes:
>
> > The following patch corrects a make install problem when building
> > under Cygwin.  The root cause of this problem is that (Sun) java is a
> > native Win32 app and hence does not understand Cygwin Posix style paths.
> > The solution is to use Cygwin's cygpath utility to convert the Posix style
> > JDBC installation directory path into a Win32 one before invoking ant.
>
> I'd like $(javadir) as the variable name, because non-JDBC things also get
> installed there.  Other than that, okay.  What kind of program is 'ant' on
> Cygwin?  Maybe it could take care of that itself in a future release?

Ant is a java binary similar to make that reads an XML file just like
make reads a Makefile.

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