On Jun 18 11:18, Vadim Zeitlin wrote: > Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes: > > > On Jun 17 16:29, Fahlgren, Eric wrote: > > > Vadim Zeitlin wrote: > > > > Could someone else please test this under Windows 7 to confirm the bug? > > > > > > Windows 7 Pro 64-bit > > > > > > $ ls C:/cygwin/lib/X11/../libc.a > > > C:/cygwin/lib/X11/../libc.a > > > $ ls C:/cygwin/lib/X11/..//libc.a > > > ls: cannot access C:/cygwin/lib/X11/..//libc.a: No such file or directory > > > > > > $ uname -a > > > CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 LM-XERXES 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) 2011-03-29 10:10 i686 > > > Cygwin > > > > Don't use Windows paths, use POSIX paths: > > As I wrote in my first message[*], I unfortunately can't avoid using > Windows paths because the original path comes from "g++ -print-search-dirs" > output of a MinGW compiler. This explains its format and also the trailing > slash that I can't easily remove neither because the path is processed by > libtool. And while in the future I might try switching to Cygwin MinGW > cross-compiler, this can't be done right now so I'd really like to find > some way of making Windows paths with "..//" in them work with Cygwin.
cygpath -pm `some-mingw-g++ -print-search-dirs` Other than that, I fixed that in CVS. It's a Win32 path coversion problem which only occurs if there are multiple backslashes trailing a ".." path component. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
