Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3A6E4156.510036E6@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 21:43:34 -0500 From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: "'cygwin@sources.redhat.com'" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.171 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mumit Khan CC: "'cygwin@sources.redhat.com'" Subject: Re: Tcl pathname isssues [Re: Results for 2.97 20010115 (experimental) testsuite on i686-pc -cygwin] References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mumit Khan wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Earnie Boyd wrote: > > > The unix version of Tcl build with Cygwin and configured with `gcc -mno-win32'. > > As a side effect, Tcl understands Cygwin paths. > > Thanks Earnie for reminding me of this! I'll have to try it out and see > what happens. > > The current Cygwin Tcl port's trouble with Cygwin paths/mounts is quite > fixable IMO, and it may be a matter of doing the path/name translation > in a different place than is done right now. I remember trying to fix > this a *long* time ago, but ran into a Cygwin bug in resolving relative > symlink; I belive cgf fixed when he bacame an active contributor (like > I said, it was a long time ago), but I never moved it off the back > burner. > > My memory is rather shoddy on what exactly the potential fix was and > wheter it actually fixed the problem or not, but we'll cross that > bridge later. A few things have changed in the path recognition since you've been gone so even if you remember exactly what it is, it is likely not to work the same. If a path contains a : in column 2 or contains a \ character it is now determined to be an absolute windows path. Chris, is this the correct wording for this feature? Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple