On Feb 9 21:47, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 09.02.2015 um 10:18 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > >On Feb 9 00:04, Thomas Wolff wrote: > >>cygwin_create_path (CCP_WIN_A_TO_POSIX, "C:/cygwin/lib") -> "/usr/lib" > >>This is the correct directory, however, only by means of the extra mount > >>point > >>of /usr/lib; I think the result should rather be the likewise correct > >>but more intuitive "/lib". > >>There is software that’s getting confused by this mix-up. > >If so, it's a bug in the software. /usr/lib is a prefectly valid path. > I don't know the details of that software and don't have the sources. But it > needs to access the directory with the Windows API and somehow derives the > Windows path back from /usr/lib which then doesn't work because /usr/lib > doesn't exist for Windows while /lib does.
You don't have the sources? Of a Cygwin application? That's a problem licensing-wise, and that makes me much less sympathetic. And then again, if it's a Cygwin application, it has a bug, and the bug should be fixed in that software, so you should file a bug with them. OTOH, if it's, in fact, not a Cygwin application, then any changes to cygwin_conv_path are moot. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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