On 03/16/2010 09:54 AM, Andy Koppe wrote:
> /dev would be E:\cygwin1.7\dev, not E:\cygwin1.7\E\cygwin1.7\dev.
>
> Looks like a bug to me, and the finger of blame points at
> /etc/postinstall/{00,}bash.sh:
>
> DEVDIR="$(cygpath -au "C:/$(cygpath -am /dev/)" | sed 's|/c/\(.\):/|/\1/|')"
> mkdir -p "$DEVDIR" || result=1
>
> I haven't stared at the sed magic long enough to work out exactly what
> it does or why, but it looks suspiciously like it assumes that Cygwin
> is installed on the C drive.No, it was a hack picked up from Igor that forces cygpath into a drive letter resolution using an arbitrary drive letter (c:, for lack of anything better), then undoes the hack to get back at the real path name. But while I know it worked for cygwin 1.5, it is highly possible that changes in cygwin 1.7 have rendered the hack bit-rotted. I may need to do a new release of bash that is guaranteed to better work with installations into non-C: drives. Thanks for the heads-up. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org volunteer cygwin bash maintainer
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