Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <39255756.45A007B@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 11:01:42 -0400 From: "Charles S. Wilson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Sheeley CC: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: cygdrive, pwd, and windows apps References: <392553C7 DOT 66AE6190 AT sourcegear DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com