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Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 09:46:31 -0500
From: Jeremy Sheeley <jeremy AT sourcegear DOT com>
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Subject: cygdrive, pwd, and windows apps
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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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