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To: Ant Users List <user@ant.apache.org>
Subject: Re: whitespace for javac task
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It is more (much more) likely to be a bug with
java - exec for windows.
It has  problems with quoting/not quoting for
windows crazy CreateProcess cmd parameter.
This raises differences between unix and windows
view of paramaters in java.lang.Runtime#exec().

Removal of the fork attribute should work.

Peter
J.Pietschmann wrote:

> JHead@ids.com.au wrote:
>
>> I have a white space character in my source directory name.
>
> ...
>
>>     <property name="src.dir" location="Java Source"/>
>
> ...
>
>>         <javac  debug="on"
>>                 classpathref="build.classpath"
>>                 fork="true"
>>                 srcdir="${src.dir}"
>>                 destdir="${build.dir}/classes"/>
>
> ...
>
>>     [javac] Compiling 1695 source files to C:\xxxxx\build\classes
>>     [javac] javac: invalid flag: C:\xxxxx\Java
>>     [javac] Usage: javac <options> <source files>
>
>
> Definitely a bug in Ant, the arguments to a forked JVM should
> be properly quoted. I can't seen a workaround unless you give
> up forking.
> It should work without forking though. Try this first.
>
> J.Pietschmann
>
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