Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <003001bf66c9$13184300$e044480c@hxzcw> From: "Paul Johnston" To: Subject: Re: bash, javac and that pesky slash. Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 16:13:56 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Strange, I'm using cygwin with jdk1.2.2/1.2.1/1.1.8 and have been happily backslash-free on my NT box. Javac understands normal unix-style path separators for me... $ javac -d /home/me/lib/java Foo.java Bar.java why the 2 leading solidii in your -d example? Paul -----Original Message----- From: Craig MacFarlane To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Date: Monday, January 24, 2000 9:32 AM Subject: bash, javac and that pesky slash. > >Sun's javac, in jdk1.2.1, seems to change the >forward slashes used by bash to backward slashes >used by windows. > >e.g. > > bash-2.02% javac -d //d/destdir/classes foo.java > >produces the error message > > The \\d\destdir\classes directory does not exist. > >Is there any way to use javac with bash >while specifying destination dirs for your classes? >It appears as though javac is trying to be too smart >by substituting slashes. > >Thanks, >Craig > >-- >Want to unsubscribe from this list? >Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com > > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com