On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 10:00:47AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Paul Johnston wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> > Cygpath is part of the cygwin package. I'm running the current latest > >> > 1.3.14-1, which was compiled on Wed, 23 Oct. It still has the bug. > >> > > >> > Perhaps this should be fixed first? > >> > >> Yes, I agree. The problem was something to do with it being linked against > >> the wrong version of a library. I think that Igor Pechtchanski, > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] knows the full details. > >> > >> Paul > > > >Well, the "full" details are that I've re-linked cygpath from source and > >it worked. I don't know what it is with the build process employed by cgf > >that breaks cygpath... > > Maybe someone will be kind enough to tell me what this is in reference to. > I've just downloaded the last few days of discussion which have the word > "cygpath" in it and I don't see anything obvious. Apparently there was > a discussion where John Morrison expressed reservations about the > current broken behavior but all I see is the opinion that it should be > fixed with no discussion about what "it" is. > > Please send the URL which discusses the problem to cygwin-apps. > > Thanks. > cgf
The -l option in the cygpath distributed with the cygwin package prints out garbage. The same cygpath compiled anew works. The problem is described (among other places) here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00749.html Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51
