Hi, I am using Cygwin 1.7.9-1 on my Windows desktop. I ran into a problem a few weeks ago using the dmake.exe uiliy, wherein dmake wanted the project that I was builing to be not in Linu convetion, but rather in a Windows notation. Since ":" and "\" are not acceptable characters in a Linux path, I had to work around the problem. I just put "/folder1/folder2/filename.extension". This "trick" worked, so long as everything is on drive C, which in my case it is.
I should have tried to solve the problem, but I worked around it and got past the issue, so I left well enough alone, till yesterday. Yesterday, I downloaded the source for binutils-2.21 and attempted to make the project. I got as far as line 2374 of /ld/makefile.in. I got a "missing file or directory" error, which threw me until I figured out that the problem is not that the file is not there, it is, but rather that ./genscripts.sh expects a Windows path, which is not posslbe to give it and would conflict with gcc and everything else. For posterity sake, the binary utiliities source is available at: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.21.tar.bz2 Cygwin is supposed to provide an isolated environment totally shielding applications that run on the inside from even knowing that a Windows anything exists. That dmake and now something in genscripts does not, means that the Cygwin wall has some holes. How do I get around this problem and more importantly how to I put up a shield such that things on the inside do not see the outside world. /usr/local should be just that, not C:/cygwin/usr/local. Yes, /cygwin/usr/local should work too, if on drive C to start. Just in case anyone is interested, /cygdrive/c/... in these errors does not work. The offending applets really want windows paths. Thankfully, Windows supports both \ and / as the same thing. My posting is on how to fix Cygwin, such that Cygwin acts like it was a real Linux box and does not have "holes" to the outside world, but as an FYI, here is the latest error capture: mv -f .deps/ldmain.Tpo .deps/ldmain.Po gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I../bfd -I./../bfd -I./../include -g -O2 -DENABLE_PLUGINS -DLOCALEDIR="\"/usr/local/share/locale\"" -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wshadow -Werror -g -O2 -MT ldemul.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/ldemul.Tp o -c -o ldemul.o ldemul.c mv -f .deps/ldemul.Tpo .deps/ldemul.Po gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I../bfd -I./../bfd -I./../include -g -O2 -DENABLE_PLUGINS -DLOCALEDIR="\"/usr/local/share/locale\"" -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wshadow -Werror -g -O2 -MT ldfile.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/ldfile.Tp o -c -o ldfile.o \ -DSCRIPTDIR='"/usr/local/mips-elf/lib"' -DBINDIR='"/usr/local/bin"' -DTOOLBINDIR='"/usr/local/mips-elf/bin"' \ ./ldfile.c mv -f .deps/ldfile.Tpo .deps/ldfile.Po LIB_PATH='' /bin/sh ./genscripts.sh "." "/usr/local/lib" "/usr/local" "/usr/local" i686-pc-cygwin mips-unknown-elf mips-elf "elf32ebmip" "/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib" no elf32ebmip "mips-elf" : No such file or directory line 2: ./emulparams/elf32bmip.sh make[4]: *** [eelf32ebmip.c] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/binutils-2.21/ld' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/binutils-2.21/ld' make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/binutils-2.21/ld' make[1]: *** [all-ld] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/binutils-2.21' make: *** [all] Error 2 Thanks in advance, Sarah -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Cygwin-and-Windows-Paths-Leaking-Through-tp31711163p31711163.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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
