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Re: 1.7.5: ant no longer finds python: upgrade from 1.5 suspected

On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 01:36 +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>   Probably caused because /usr/bin/python is just a symlink to
> /usr/bin/python2.5.exe, which can't be launched by a windows process like Ant;

More precisely, like the native-Win32 JDK.  After all, Ant is just a
Java program, and works just as well on Ports' GNU Classpath (which of
course *does* support symlinks) -- once you tell the Ant wrappers that
Cygwin is NOT Win32.


Yaakov



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