RE: Using jde-ant build with default shell

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jere McDevitt [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 16 april 2007 03:16

> Normally I use ntemacs and jdee with the Cygwin tools 
> installed, but due to
> some restrictions in a particular situation, I can use 
> ntemacs & jdee but
> not cygwin.  When doing an ant build (C-c C-v C-b), the build 
> would fail
> with:
> 
> cd k:/devel/projects/client/src/client/
> ant -buildfile 'k:/devel/projects/client/build.xml' -emacs test  
> Buildfile: 'k:\devel\projects\client\build.xml' does not exist!
> Build failed
> 
> even though that is the correct build file. It turns out the 
> default shell
> for emacs (emacs/bin/cmdproxy.exe which is the Windows 
> cmd.exe shell) does
> not like the single quote marks that are surrounding the 
> build file name.
> To work around this, I made the following modifications to jde-ant.el
...
> This changes the single quotes (') to double quotes (") if 
> the shell is
> cmdproxy, regardless of the invocation method.  It may fail 
> when using the
> ant server, but I don't use that so I'm not sure.
> 
> I'm an elisp novice, but this seems to work both when I have 
> a cygwin bash
> shell in use or the default Window's shell.  If there is a 
> better way to
> make this work I'd appreciate seeing it so I don't have to 
> have a modified
> version of the lisp files.

There is an elisp function `shell-quote-argument' for handling this. That function should be called immediately before sending the arguments to the shell so that the correct shell-file-name is used when trying to decide the quoting style.

So this is a bug in jde-ant.el.