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On Jul 15 10:49, Lee Maschmeyer wrote:
> From: "Corinna Vinschen"
> To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 16:37
> Subject: Re: A path that's invalid on 1.7 but presumably valid on 1.5
>
>
>> On Jul 14 16:21, Lee Maschmeyer wrote:
>>> The invalid path in question: //?/e:cygwin/usr/share/tcl8.4/init.tcl. 
>>> This
>>> is the path as supplied by tcl. To make it work, insert a / after the
>>> colon: //?/e:/cygwin/usr/share/tcl8.4/init.tcl.
>>
>> Yes, that's right.  //?/e:cygwin is an invalid path.  I don't know
>> where the path with the missing slash comes from, but this looks
>> like an application or library bug.
>
> Could it possibly be a path conversion error? Here's the error message; it 
> looks possibly suspicious to me:
>
>    //?/e:/cygwin/share/tcl8.4 //?/e:cygwin/share/tcl8.4 
> //?/e:cygwin/usr/share/tcl8.4 //?/e:share/tcl8.4 //?/e:cygwin/library //?/e
> :library //?/e:../tcl8.4.1/library

You could try to remove the /e mount point for testing.  It's possible
that the problem I patched yesterday is the cause of the problem.


Corinna

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