Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I don't agree with you that /../ components are actually seldom in path > expressions. If you examine typical source trees, you'll find that > expressions as -I../../foo/bar or -L/path/to/bin/../lib are used quite > often.
Indeed. Even just "gcc hello.c" has to wade through all this: $ gcc -print-search-dirs install: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/ programs: =/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/bin/../lib/gcc/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/:/usr/libexec/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/usr/libexec/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/:/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ libraries: =/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/bin/../lib/gcc/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/lib/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/lib/:/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../:/lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/lib/:/usr/lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/usr/lib/ Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
