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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 06:39:47 +0100
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Subject: Re: mintty postinstall failure - attn: cygutils maintainer
From: Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com>
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On 7 October 2010 04:12, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 10/6/2010 2:44 PM, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> I can't see anything obviously wrong with mkshortcut.
>
> Nor can I.
>
>> It converts the
>> link name with cygwin_conv_to_win32_path(), adds '.lnk', and prepends
>> the start menu path.
>>
>> cygwin_conv_to_win32_path() is ...

Hmm, cygwin_conv_to_win32_path() simply invokes this:

  cygwin_conv_path (CCP_POSIX_TO_WIN_A | CCP_RELATIVE, path,  MAX_PATH)

And I can't see anything suspicious in the source code of that either.
Although, what if the 'Cygwin' in 'Cygwin/mintty' happens to be a
symlink in the current directory that points to an absolute path?
Eric?


> Although, all of these instances of cygwin_conv_to_win32_path were
> touched by the widechar patch that somebody, I forget who-- :-) --was
> working on...maybe that patch, as it transitions to using the newer
> cygwin conv interface, would clear things up?
>
> :-)

Yep, it would be great if that somebody finally did get round to break
that patch up into appropriate chunks. ;)

Andy

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