A tip: check if the short (DOS) name of your C:\Program Files directory is
progra~1 (and not progra~2 for example).
The new patch - which looks for diff files in the subversion directory
first - will solve this anyway.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sebastian Bergmann" <lists@sebastian-bergmann.de>
To: <dev@subversion.tigris.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 10:16 AM
Subject: 'svn diff' on Windows
> I have diff and diff3 in the required location
>
> C:\>dir "C:\Program Files\cygnus\cygwin\bin\"
> Datenträger in Laufwerk C: ist Windows2K
> Datenträgernummer: 7498-3CC2
>
> Verzeichnis von C:\Program Files\cygnus\cygwin\bin
>
> 30.06.2002 10:10 <DIR> .
> 30.06.2002 10:10 <DIR> ..
> 06.04.2002 12:11 95.744 diff.exe
> 06.04.2002 12:11 25.088 diff3.exe
> 2 Datei(en) 120.832 Bytes
> 2 Verzeichnis(se), 4.430.688.256 Bytes frei
>
> But 'svn diff' gives me
>
> apr_error: #22503, src_err 0:
> <Das System kann den angegebenen Pfad nicht finden.>
> svn_io_run_cmd:
> error starting c:\progra~1\cygnus\cygwin\bin\diff.exe process
>
> I *believe* I didn't do anything wrong this time -- so what could be
> the reason for this?
>
> On a side note: why does the location for the diffutils need to be
> hardcoded? I have diff.exe and diff3.exe in my PATH, and not everyone
> installs cygwin to c:\program files\cygnus\cygwin\, or uses cygwin
> versions of the tools in the first place.
>
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