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Subject: Re: Directory named "." created at /: seems to have happened    during update
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On Mar  1 13:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar  1 12:32, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Mar  1 11:08, Fergus wrote:
> > > My Cygwin [1.7] is located at the root of a mobile hard drive and a
> > > simple DOS dir command now shows a directory named . as in
> > > [...]
> > 
> > Oh boy.  I didn't even know that NT allows that.
> > 
> > That's two bugs in one.  The lilypond package has paths with leading
> > "./" in it, and setup.exe does not recognize that and remove the dot
> > path.
> > 
> > For now I have removed the latest lilypond package from the distro.
> > Jan, can you please fix your package not to have leading ./ in the path?
> > 
> > As for setup.exe, I have to have a look how to avoid that.
> 
> The problem is, I can't reproduce it.  I created two test packages,
> one with a file "./file" in it, the other with a file "tmp/./file".
> In both cases, setup.exe failed to create the file and showed a
> message "unable to extract ...".
> 
> This was on Windows 7.  What Windows are you using?  Maybe an older
> version allows it.  Unless I can create the "." directory myself,
> I can't fix it.

On Windows XP I can't reproduce it either.  Hmm.


Corinna

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