X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_WL,TW_RX,TW_YG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <5033C360.1060007@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:20:32 -0400 From: Charles Wilson Reply-To: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.2; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Oddity with cygport, debuginfo generation, and rxvt-unicode Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com While rebuilding rxvt-unicode, I saw the following error during 'cygport install': Preparing debuginfo source files: realpath: unknown option -- p Try `realpath --help' for more information. 80 files Preparing executables for UAC: A little debugging showed that realpath is being invoked during src_postinstall here: line 978:do # make sure that paths with '../' don't leave srcdir case $(realpath -m ${dbgsrc}) in ${dbgsrcdir}/*) ;; *) continue ;; esac srcf=${dbgsrc#${dbgsrcdir}/} I see that this line is hit many times, but here is the relevant sequence: ... realpath -m ]* ) continue; + esac # make sure that paths with '../' don't leave $dbgsrcdir - case $(realpath -m ${dbgsrc}) in + case $(realpath -m -- ${dbgsrc}) in ${dbgsrcdir}/*) ;; *) continue ;; esac srcf=${dbgsrc#${dbgsrcdir}/} ...although I'm not sure if this might cause a problem if a filename actually contains a shell redirection metacharacter (and the originating project is always careful to appropriate quote that filename). -- Chuck -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple