Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/11/10/23:08:06
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 06:33:03PM -0500, Lee Dilkie wrote:
>
>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the reply Larry.
>>
>>>> It is reporting an absolute path for
>>>> windows style in all invocations and ignoring the absence of -a.
>>>>
>>>> $ cygpath -w foo
>>>> C:\foo
>>>>
>>>> $ cygpath -wa foo
>>>> C:\foo
>>>>
>>>> $ cygpath -u foo
>>>> foo
>>>>
>>>> $ cygpath -ua foo
>>>> /cygdrive/c//foo
>>>>
>>> WJFFM. What does 'cygpath --version' report for you? Mine is 1.42.4.1.
>>> Perhaps you're out of date?
>>>
>>>
>> $ cygpath --version
>> cygpath (cygwin) 1.51
>> Path Conversion Utility
>> Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006,
>> 2007, 2008 Red Hat, Inc.
>> Compiled on Oct 30 2008
>>
>> I forgot to mention this is a cygwin 1.7 issue, my 1.5 version worked fine.
>>
>
> Sorry but this WJFFM in cygwin-1.7.0-31 although the double // in the
> -ua case is annoying.
>
Sorry, but where is the manual or documentation for 1.7.?
Is it intentional that the output of cygpath would change in such a
non-backwards-compatible way? Showing only absolute paths in windows
broke my makefile scripts.
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>
>
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>>
>
> cgf
>
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