Re: [Mingw-users] Run *.bat files under shell?

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

GROSSJOHANN, Kai wrote:
> I tried the following stupid thing:
> 
> 	ant -emacs compile
> 
> It took me a while to figure out that this runs the Bourne shell script that
> comes with Ant, which is confused by the DOS-style "c:\foo;c:\bar" value of
> $CLASSPATH, I guess.
> 

What happens if you redefine the CLASSPATH to use posix format?  You can 
store the change in ~/.profile so that you don't have to bother the 
windows environment.

> So I tried
> 
> 	ant.bat -emacs compile
> 
> This causes the shell to try to run it as a Bourne shell script, which leads
> to weird problems.
> 

Yea, I need to change MSYS so that files ending .bat get passed to 
%COMSPEC%.

> Success was finally achieved with
> 
> 	cmd //c $(which ant.bat) -emacs compile
> 
> However, this is somewhat cumbersome to type.  Is there an easier way to do
> this?  Maybe I can tell MinGW to always run *.bat files using the above
> method?
> 

Create a shell script:

<script name="/bin/mant">
#! /bin/sh
cmd //c $(which ant.bat) "$@"
</script>

Earnie.
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