antrun versus wsl versus cygwin

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Sun Feb 17 13:39:00 GMT 2019


Am 17.02.2019 um 12:11 schrieb Franz Fehringer:
> Hi all (half off topic),
>
> I have installed (on a Windows 10 1809 system) both Cygwin and WSL (only
> the Windows component, no real Linux distribution yet).
> This scenario gives me a strange problem with antrun: With <exec
> executable="bash"> i always get the WSL bash instead of the Cygwin one,
> although Cygwin is first in PATH (both Cygwin PATH and Windows PATH),
> even so if C:/Windows/System32 (location of WSL bash) is not in the
> (Cygwin) PATH at all.
> I made some tries with extra parameters like seachpath to no avail.
> It (naturally) works if i give the full absolute path to the Cyhwin
> bash, but this is awkward.
> Any hints about reason and solution?
No, just about some diagnostics (maybe your application does not see the 
extended PATH?): on a Windows cmd line, say `where bash` to see if it's 
really available...

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