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: <20000519153144.2965.qmail@web115.yahoomail.com> Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 08:31:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Subject: Re: cygdrive, pwd, and windows apps To: Jeremy Sheeley , cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii So, exactly why are you using Cygwin? Checkout the Make Utility at http://www.mingw.org for a Win32 native build of make. Cheers, Earnie. --- 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 > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com