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To: "Karr, David" <david DOT karr AT attws DOT com>
cc: "'advanced-java'" <advanced-java AT xcf DOT berkeley DOT edu>,
        "'cygwin'" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Re: problem with "javadoc -link", using "file:" URL 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 Jul 1999 10:28:07 PDT."
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Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 12:55:36 -0500
From: Mumit Khan <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT EDU>

"Karr, David" <david DOT karr AT attws DOT com> writes:
> (Besides the newsgroups, is there a better mailing list for discussion
> questions about javadoc?  Our news server is down, and I don't know how long
> it will be down, so I'm looking for an alternate forum to ask these
> questions (that is actually read).)
> 
> On Solaris, I was able to specify an option like this to "javadoc":
> 
> 	-link file:${JDKHOME}/docs/api
> 
> This was inside the "build" rule in my Makefile, to build the documentation
> for my project.  This worked fine.  Now, on NT, using the Cygwin tools, and
> with MAKE_MODE set to "unix", I cannot get this to work.  Depending on what
> variation I try, it either fails with an error message, or it silently
> creates links to a directory which does not exist.
> 
> My JDK distribution is in "D:\jdk1.2.2".  I've tried every variation I can
> think of to fill in that field with.  Initially my JDKHOME variable was set
> to "d:/jdk1.2.2".  In this state, it generates links in the html files like
> this:
> 
> class java.lang.<A
> HREF="file:d:/jdk1.2.2/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html"><B>Object</B></A>
> 
> When I try to follow this link, it says it can't find it.
> 
> So, then I tried manually changing the html file to use this:
> 
> class java.lang.<A
> HREF="file://d|/jdk1.2.2/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html"><B>Object</B></A>
> 
> This worked fine.  However, setting the "-link" argument to:
> 
> 	file://d|/jdk1.2.2/docs/api <file://d|/jdk1.2.2/docs/api> 
> 
> Makes javadoc fail with:
> 
> javadoc: Error fetching URL: file://d|/jdk1.2.2/docs/api/package-list

Java tools AFAIK are not ported to Cygwin, but rather MSVC apps. If that 
is the case, how can Java tools know about Cygwin style pathnames?

//<drivename> is a Cygwin invention (and used by Interix and so on);
and MSVC and underlying Windows32 API knows nothing about it and hence
can't grok it. Unless of course Java tools have been modified internally
to handle it somehow.

Regards,
Mumit


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