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 Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 21:50:28 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: Re: Tcl pathname isssues [Re: Results for 2.97 20010115 (experimental) testsuite on i686-pc -cygwin] Message-ID: <20010123215028.A22858@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" References: <3A6E4156.510036E6@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <3A6E4156.510036E6@yahoo.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 09:43:34PM -0500 On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 09:43:34PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: >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? Yep. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple