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Re: [1.7] cygpath broken?
On Apr 14 23:20, Greg Couch wrote:
> I'm seeing some really weird behavior with cygpath in cygwin 1.7 on Vista
> Home Premium. For instance, if I'm in my home directory and there's an
> image.png file in it:
>
> $ ls -l image.png
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 gregc None 6211 Apr 5 16:00 image.png
> $ cygpath -u image.png
> image.png
> $ cygpath -ua image.png
> /home/gregc/image.png
> $ cygpath -m image.png
>
> $ cygpath -ma image.png
> C:/cygwin/home/gregc/image.png
> $ cygpath -w image.png
>
> $ cygpath -wa image.png
> C:\cygwin\home\gregc\image.png
>
> So cygpath -m and -w are returning empty lines. Is anyone else seeing
> this behavior?
Yes, getting relative windows paths is definitely broken. I'm surprised
that this hasn't been found earlier. I'll look into a patch.
Thanks for the report,
Corinna
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