Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/11/10/23:46:43
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:07:23PM -0500, Lee Dilkie wrote:
>
>
>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 Perhaps you're out of date?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.?
1.7.0 hasn't been released. It's in a "If you have to ask you probably
shouldn't be using it" state.
cygpath --help
Will provide you with accurate help.
>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.
Please don't jump to conclusions. No one has said anything about
changing the output of cygpath.
If you read
http://cygwin.com/problems.html
that is one of the subtle points that is trying to be made.
Once again: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJFFM
>> You asked how to report problems. The answer to your question is at the
>> bottom of every message to the cygwin mailing list:
>>
>>> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
cgf
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