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RE: tar -C dir option makes dir relative to current dir
- To: 'Jon Mountjoy' <mountjoy at netcomuk dot co dot uk>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: RE: tar -C dir option makes dir relative to current dir
- From: Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux at microprocess dot com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 18:05:05 +0200
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Mountjoy [mailto:mountjoy@netcomuk.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 4:38 PM
> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: tar -C dir option makes dir relative to current dir
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have read all docs and couldn't solve my problem. In a
> make file I have:
> cd foo && tar blah blah | tar -C j:/foobar
>
> Now I run the make file from the l: drive (so l:/foo exists).
>
> The problem is that when the tar on the right gets run, it
> tries to place
> the files in the directory:
> /cygdrive/l/foo/j:/foobar
> which of course isn't a valid directory.
>
> I know I can solve it by not going over another filesystem,
> but that isn't
> ideal.
>
> Any ideas? (I am running latest net release on W2K. l: and
> j: are mapped
> drives. I also tried mounting them, didn't solve a thing.
> WinNT Ver 5.0
> build 2195,
> Cygwin DLL version i dll major: 1001 dll minor: 4
> dll epoch: 19)
Did you try "... | tar -C /cygdrive/j/foobar" ?
The problem here is that for TAR (except if especially changed for cygwin)
j:/foobar is a *relative* path name, not an absolute one (it does not start
by a '/') :-(
The cygwin /cygdrive feature is just for that :-)
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Bernard Dautrevaux
Microprocess Ingenierie
97 bis, rue de Colombes
92400 COURBEVOIE
FRANCE
Tel: +33 (0) 1 47 68 80 80
Fax: +33 (0) 1 47 88 97 85
e-mail: dautrevaux@microprocess.com
b.dautrevaux@usa.net
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