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From:	"Jon Beniston" <jon AT beniston DOT com>
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Subject:	bash pwd returning windows style paths
Date:	Thu, 20 May 2010 21:58:02 +0100
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Hi,

I'm trying to get the linuxtools Eclipse autoconf plugin to work on Cygwin.
One problem I'm having is that a configure script (from newlib) is calling
pwd which is returning a Windows style path (e.g. c:/something), which
causes it to fail. This appears to be because Eclipse is setting the
environment variable PWD to a Windows style path. This can be reproduced
with:

PWD=c:/cygwin/ sh
$ pwd
c:/cygwin/

I'm just wondering what would be the recommended way to tackle this:

1. Change Eclipse so it sets PWD to a Cygwin style path. 
2. Patch the bash pwd builtin so it doesn't return Windows paths. 
3. Change the configure script so it uses /usr/bin/pwd instead of the
builtin (which returns the Cygwin style path).
4. Something else? 

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Jon




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