Re: Bug 51908 - Illegal character in path at index 0

Hi John,


> Is there a workaround/fix for the following build failure message?

A workaround was already proposed by you [1]. ;-)


> It seems that this is a year-old bug, started in the 1.7 build jars.

Apparently it started way before that. I could trace related changes
to around 2003...


Nevertheless, I've just committed a fix in trunk (future version 1.8),
so feel free to try it out and confirm that it helps.


Cheers,
 Helder


[1] https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51908#c3