Hi Robert The problem here is that the string of the target directory is computed by another tool -- Mercurial in this case -- and that Mercurial returns a absolute windows style path as
Z:/DEV/OpenJDK_7u40/hotspot which seems to be relative in Unix world but which is absolute in the Windows world. Moreover, when using the bash shell, the command FrancisANDRE@idefix /cygdrive/c/Cygwin $ cd Z:/DEV/OpenJDK_7u40/hotspot moves the cwd without error to FrancisANDRE@idefix /cygdrive/z/DEV/OpenJDK_7u40/hotspot So why the ksh cannot do the same? Francis Le 05/10/2013 12:22, Robert Klemme a écrit :
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Francis ANDRE <[email protected]> wrote:Hi Cygwin List I have a problem with the cd command in a ksh script. In the log below, there is this error: /make/scripts/webrev.ksh[2899]: cd: /cygdrive/z/DEV/OpenJDK_7u40/hotspot/Z:/DEV/OpenJDK_7u40/hotspo t/make/windows/makefiles: No such file or directory and the snippet producing this error is # cd to the directory so the names are short echo "=============================1" CWW=$CWS DIR=$DIR VARRR=$CWS/$DIR echo "=============================2" VARR=$VARRR cd "$VARRR" echo "=============================3" $CWS/$DIR So it seems that the cd command is prepending the target directory where to go(Z:/DEV/OpenJDK_7u40/hotspo t/make/windows/makefiles) by the current working directory (/cygdrive/z/DEV/OpenJDK_7u40/hotspot/)... I guess that's because Z:/... is a relative path on Unix (as opposed to Windows). Is there a way to avoid this prefix so that the commad: cd Z:/DEV/OpenJDK_7u40/hotspot/make/windows/makefiles just prepend by the cygdrive prefix?Use a proper cygwin path, e.g. /cygdrive/z/DEV/OpenJDK_7u40/hotspot/make/windows/makefiles I typically do it like this: only use Unix style paths in scripts. If I invoke a Windows command I convert necessary paths with "cygpath -a {path}". I even have a script somewhere which looks at command line arguments and converts them on the fly if it thinks it's a path (the heuristic I use is that I test the path for existence and if that fails I use dirname of the path and test it for existing directory). Kind regards robert
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