diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index 63d9dc505..70aa23b8a 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ Fixed bugs:
 
 * replacestring tokenfilter only replaced the first occurrence.
 
+* AntLikeTasksAtTopLevelTest failed on cygwin.
+
 Other changes:
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diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Ant.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Ant.java
index 7f79b30c3..a81c651f4 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Ant.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Ant.java
@@ -325,9 +325,9 @@ public class Ant extends Task {
 
             // Are we trying to call the target in which we are defined (or
             // the build file if this is a top level task)?
-            if (newProject.getProperty("ant.file")
-                .equals(getProject().getProperty("ant.file"))
-                && getOwningTarget() != null) {
+            if (newProject.resolveFile(newProject.getProperty("ant.file"))
+                .equals(getProject().resolveFile(getProject()
+                .getProperty("ant.file"))) && getOwningTarget() != null) {
 
                 if (getOwningTarget().getName().equals("")) {
                     if (getTaskName().equals("antcall")) {