Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2000/04/13/10:52:20
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 07:23:48AM -0700, Mo DeJong wrote:
>On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Chris Faylor wrote:
>A directory like usr/bin/ in the tar file was
>getting converted to C:\Cygwin\usr\bin, so
>setup.c thought it is was a file not a directory.
>When setup.c goes to write out the command to
>delete a file or directory, it checks to see
>if the name ends with a \ char.
>
>I do not know if this ever worked, but it is
>broken now so I whipped up a patch for the
>problem. This patch will append a \ char on
>the end of a filename that setup.c is processing.
Thank you for the patch, but I don't see how it is correct to always add
a slash on the end of every file that is reported by tar.
In most cases these are files that are being extracted.
>This also changes the directory where the uninstaller will cd to
>internally and turns the install.bat file into a windows style name so
>it can be deleted.
I don't understand what you mean. What's a "windows style name"?
>This patch also adds /usr/local/bin to the default PATH set in
>cygwin.bat. Users that install programs with autoconf will be
>installing into /usr/local by default so it should be on the PATH.
>Oh yeah, this patch also fixes a little compiler warning
>(the void ** bit).
That's not a fix, is it? It's a workaround. The correct fix is
probably to correct a prototype somewhere.
cgf
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