Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 06:33:03PM -0500, Lee Dilkie wrote: > >> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> >> Thanks for the reply Larry. >> >>>> It is reporting an absolute path for >>>> windows style in all invocations and ignoring the absence of -a. >>>> >>>> $ cygpath -w foo >>>> C:\foo >>>> >>>> $ cygpath -wa foo >>>> C:\foo >>>> >>>> $ cygpath -u foo >>>> foo >>>> >>>> $ cygpath -ua foo >>>> /cygdrive/c//foo >>>> >>> WJFFM. What does 'cygpath --version' report for you? Mine is 1.42.4.1. >>> Perhaps you're out of date? >>> >>> >> $ cygpath --version >> cygpath (cygwin) 1.51 >> Path Conversion Utility >> Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, >> 2007, 2008 Red Hat, Inc. >> Compiled on Oct 30 2008 >> >> I forgot to mention this is a cygwin 1.7 issue, my 1.5 version worked fine. >> > > Sorry but this WJFFM in cygwin-1.7.0-31 although the double // in the > -ua case is annoying. > Sorry, but where is the manual or documentation for 1.7.?
Is it intentional that the output of cygpath would change in such a non-backwards-compatible way? Showing only absolute paths in windows broke my makefile scripts. > You asked how to report problems. The answer to your question is at the > bottom of every message to the cygwin mailing list: > > >> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >> > > cgf > > -- > 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/ > -- 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/
