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Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 11:01:42 -0400
From: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>
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To: Jeremy Sheeley <jeremy@sourcegear.com>
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Subject: Re: cygdrive, pwd, and windows apps
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PWD = `pwd`
ROOT = `cygpath -w $PWD`

Jeremy Sheeley wrote:
> 
> I have a problem in that if i try:
> 
> notepad /cygdrive/c/sometextfile.txt
> 
> notepad (being a windows app) has no idea how to find /cygdrive.  So how
> do I easily get the dos-style path?  Here's the full context:
> 
> We have a cross-platform app that uses the same Makefiles on all the
> platforms.  The first thing that we do is set a variable to the source's
> root directory using something like:
> 
> ROOT := $(shell pwd)
> 
> This will, if the source is outside the cygwin hierarchy, set ROOT to
> /cygdrive/c/blah.  Then the compiler (which is cl, the Visual C++
> compiler) won't be able to find the source files.
> 
> one quick fix is to change the line to something like:
> 
> ROOT := $(shell pwd | sed 's/\/cygdrive\/\(.\)\//\1:\\/g')
> 
> which translates /cygdrive/c/ to c:\
> 
> BUT that's ugly, requires too much platform-specific knowledge in the
> Makefile and would require that we change all the Makefiles.
> 
> So to sum up:  There has to be an easier way!!  Any ideas?
> 
> -Jeremy Sheeley
> 
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