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Re: cygpath
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: Dave Yost <Dave at Yost dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 15:18:54 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: cygpath
- References: <20040512162136.13663.qmail@web61104.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 12 May 2004, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> --- Dave Yost wrote:
> [snip]
> > I have a small problem.
> >
> > I have a path ../foo:../bar
> >
> > When I use the --path argument, cygpath insists on converting the relative
> > paths into absolute paths. I wish it wouldn't do that. But I can understand
> > the need for backward compatibility, so could I request a --relative option?
>
> You might use a simple sed script to take out what you don't need.
Keeping relative paths might actually be useful functionality in cygpath.
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>.
> > Also:
> >
> > I have this nasty problem with the Sun 1.4.x JDK (fixed in 1.5.0-beta1). I
> > pass in a classpath argument like this:
> >
> > javac -classpath `cygpath -w /usr/local/jdk/lib/tools.jar` X.java
> >
> > Problem is, /usr/local/jdk is a cygwin symlink, and the java runtime
> > apparently can't follow symbolic links or shortcuts.
>
> I don't use Java with cygwin, so maybe someone else on the list will have
> some ideas for this issue.
Use mounts instead of symlinks. Alternatively, you can take the java
wrapper script I posted to this list some time ago[*], and modify it to
walk the classpath and resolve symlinks.
Igor
[*] <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg00174.html> or use the CVS
version at :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/cygwin-apps (directory
wrappers/java).
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