> I remember making a change to newt tool to use relative paths

Apologies, it was Chris who fixed the relative paths, my fix was for the
slashes. But still... ;-)
https://github.com/apache/mynewt-newt/commit/c1dfedcd1595882ddd20f042a16fc2ed89260b46#commitcomment-20649609


On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 12:30 AM Simon Ratner <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi devs,
>
> At some point between 1.3.0 and 1.4.1, the `newt` tool switched from using
> a relative path for the built image when passing it to `openocd`, to using
> an absolute path.
>
> This can be a problem for anyone running a mixed Linux/Windows environment
> like cygwin or WSL; relative paths are perfectly transferable between
> systems (for example, Linux-native `newt` -> Windows-native `openocd`),
> whereas absolute paths are not, because the root mount point is different
> (C:/... vs. /mnt/c/...)
>
> Any pointers to when this change may have happened, and whether it was
> intentional or accidental? I remember making a change to newt tool to use
> relative paths for this exact reason some time ago ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> simon
>

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