X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 13:05:20 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Directory named "." created at /: seems to have happened during update Message-ID: <20100301120520.GV5683@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4B8BA03F.9090402@bonhard.uklinux.net> <20100301113255.GU5683@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100301113255.GU5683@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Mar 1 12:32, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 1 11:08, Fergus wrote: > > My Cygwin [1.7] is located at the root of a mobile hard drive and a > > simple DOS dir command now shows a directory named . as in > > [...] > > Oh boy. I didn't even know that NT allows that. > > That's two bugs in one. The lilypond package has paths with leading > "./" in it, and setup.exe does not recognize that and remove the dot > path. > > For now I have removed the latest lilypond package from the distro. > Jan, can you please fix your package not to have leading ./ in the path? > > As for setup.exe, I have to have a look how to avoid that. The problem is, I can't reproduce it. I created two test packages, one with a file "./file" in it, the other with a file "tmp/./file". In both cases, setup.exe failed to create the file and showed a message "unable to extract ...". This was on Windows 7. What Windows are you using? Maybe an older version allows it. Unless I can create the "." directory myself, I can't fix it. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple