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On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 09:12:25AM -0500, Edward Lam wrote:
>Eric Blake wrote:
>> The package dash has been upgraded to 0.5.5.1-2 for those using cygwin
>> 1.7, simultaneously replacing dash-0.5.5.1-1 and ash-20040127-4.  The ash
>> package is now obsolete; ash.exe is provided by the dash package.
>
>I know I'm slow but I just updated to this cygwin change and running 
>into a snag. In our build process, we rely on using DOS file paths and 
>dash seems to NOT support them. It's impractical for me to properly use 
>POSIX paths because of the effort required to convert such a large 
>project (it was ported to Windows in 1996 back when we were using Cygnus 
>B20.1(?)). I tried to go look for ash but couldn't find it anymore. 
>Using bash seems to cause other problems in the build process (and of 
>course it's also dog slow on this complicated project). Any ideas?

You could always build your own version of ash.

There is also the Cygwin Time Machine:
http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html#cygwincirca

cgf

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