On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 09:12:25AM -0500, Edward Lam wrote: >Eric Blake wrote: >> The package dash has been upgraded to 0.5.5.1-2 for those using cygwin >> 1.7, simultaneously replacing dash-0.5.5.1-1 and ash-20040127-4. The ash >> package is now obsolete; ash.exe is provided by the dash package. > >I know I'm slow but I just updated to this cygwin change and running >into a snag. In our build process, we rely on using DOS file paths and >dash seems to NOT support them. It's impractical for me to properly use >POSIX paths because of the effort required to convert such a large >project (it was ported to Windows in 1996 back when we were using Cygnus >B20.1(?)). I tried to go look for ash but couldn't find it anymore. >Using bash seems to cause other problems in the build process (and of >course it's also dog slow on this complicated project). Any ideas?
You could always build your own version of ash. There is also the Cygwin Time Machine: http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html#cygwincirca cgf -- 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
