If this change is what is desired by the majority, that is fine. BUT, it
should have been made clear that the fundamental behaviour of cygpath had
changed. I have many scripts that no longer work. Even the jakarata ant
tool's start-up script now mangles the classpath because of this change in
behaviour.
At least with version 1.21 (and I believe through 1.24, just glancing
through the CVS history), the behaviour was always as follows:
cygpath --path --unix $UNIX_CLASSPATH returns UNIX_CLASSPATH
cygpath --path --unix $DOS_CLASSPATH return UNIX_CLASSPATH
cygpath --path --windows $UNIX_CLASSPATH returns DOS_CLASSPATH
cygpath --path --windows $DOS_CLASSPATH returns DOS_CLASSPATH
Now the behaviour is as follows:
cygpath --path --unix $UNIX_CLASSPATH returns a truncated UNIX_CLASSPATH
if it is too long
cygpath --path --unix $DOS_CLASSPATH return UNIX_CLASSPATH
cygpath --path --windows $UNIX_CLASSPATH returns DOS_CLASSPATH
cygpath --path --windows $DOS_CLASSPATH returns a garbled DOS_CLASSPATH
regardless of length (e.g. the path is transformed from C:/home/build to
C;c:/home/build
We no longer have the option to run a classpath of unknown format through
cgypath to make sure it is in a known format. This is the issue in the
jakarta ant tool. It makes no assumptions on what the format of the path is
-- it immediately converts it to unix regardless of the current format.
This was the expected behaviour.
Is there another utility that can be used to identify the format of a
classpath? This will be needed to account for the changed behaviour in
modifying scripts.
--Doug Newton
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-Original Message-
From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 9:04 PM
To: Newton, Doug
Subject: Re: cygpath bug in version 1.25
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 05:29:32PM -0600, Newton, Doug wrote:
I believe I have found a bug in cygpath.exe version 1.25 (Which has been
the
version included since at least cygwin version 1.3.17-1 and through cygwin
version 1.3.20-1).
Using installations from any release since 1.3.17-1 (the earliest full
installation that I had available), cygpath does work fine if converting a
dos classpath to a unix classpath, and converting a unix classpath to a dos
classpath. BUT, if you try to convert a long unix classpath to a unix
classpath, I have had truncation occur.
Correct. You're passing a windows path to cygpath which consists of a
bunch of characters separated by colons. cygpath is treating the input
as one filename so the path will be truncated to the maximum of 260
characters by cygpath. That is by design. Sorry.
cgf
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-Original Message-
From: Douglas Newton [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 9:04 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: cygpath bug in version 1.25
I believe I have found a bug in cygpath.exe version 1.25 (Which has been the
version included since at least cygwin version 1.3.17-1 and through cygwin
version 1.3.20-1).
Using installations from any release since 1.3.17-1 (the earliest full
installation that I had available), cygpath does work fine if converting a
dos classpath to a unix classpath, and converting a unix classpath to a dos
classpath. BUT, if you try to convert a long unix classpath to a unix
classpath, I have had truncation occur. The following example was run with
cygwin version 1.3.17-1:
$ echo $CLASSPATH
/home/dnewton/dev/nextgen_src/build:/usr/software/lib/endorsed/xml-apis.jar:
/usr/software/lib/endorsed/xercesImpl.jar:/usr/software/lib/endorsed/xalan.j
ar:/usr/software/lib/bcel.jar:/usr/software/lib/bsf.jar:/usr/software/lib/js
.jar:/usr/software/lib/jakarta-oro-2.0.2.jar:/usr/software/lib/ojdbc14.jar:/
usr/software/lib/log4j-1.2.7.jar:/usr/software/lib/logkit.jar:/usr/software/
lib/maybeupload.jar:/usr/software/lib/junit.jar:/usr/software/lib/jdom.jar:/
usr/software/lib/ecs-1.4.1.jar:/usr/software/lib/avalonapi.jar:/usr/software
/lib/jakarta-regexp-1.2.jar:/usr/software/lib/jstyle.jar:/usr/software/lib/f
op-0_17_0.jar:/usr/software/lib/saxpath.jar:/usr/software/lib/jaxen-full.jar
:/usr/software/lib/antlr-all.jar:/usr/software/lib/servlet.jar:/usr/software
/lib/struts.jar:/usr/software/lib/getopt.jar:/usr/software/lib/gnu-regexp.ja
r:/usr/software/lib/jacorb.jar:/usr/software/lib/jboss-client.jar:/usr/softw
are/lib/jboss-common-client.jar:/usr/software/lib/jbossha-client.jar:/usr/so
ftware/lib/jboss-iiop-client.jar:/usr/software/lib/jboss-j2ee.jar:/usr/softw
are/lib/jboss-jaas.jar:/usr/software/lib/jbossjmx-ant.jar:/usr/software/lib/
jboss-jsr77-client.jar:/usr/software/lib/jbossmq-client.jar:/usr/software/li
b/jbossmqha.jar:/usr/software/lib/jboss-net-client.jar:/usr/software/lib/jbo
sssx-client.jar:/usr/software/lib/jboss-system-client.jar:/usr