mkshortcut (cygutils-1.4.14) free error
Mark Geisert
mark@maxrnd.com
Tue Oct 27 09:30:00 GMT 2015
Anthony Heading writes:
> I didn't hit any explicit configure issue myself, rather a bunch of
> unrecognized case-invariant strcmp variants, which took about 10 seconds
> to fix but did make me wonder about the source code. And then this
> below was the slightly trickier issue:
>
> % src/mkshortcut/.libs/mkshortcut xyzzy
> mkshortcut: Saving "xyzzy.lnk" failed; does the target directory exist?
>
> The packaged binary does not do this.
I really appreciate the leads and code you've provided. Could we please
discuss only on the Cygwin mailing list? That's the convention we have,
barring extraordinary circumstances :) . It allows for public review.
Installing gettext-devel and popt-devel got rid of my configure issues. I
updated lpr/Printer.cc and cygdrop/cygdrop.cc to use strcasecmp() instead of
stricmp() and strcmpi() respectively. I did not (yet) look into the
compiler warnings that spew during the build of some of the cygutils
executables.
At that point I could reproduce your first mkshortcut issue. Your patch
seems to fix that issue. So far, so good.
The second issue with the non-absolute path is more problematic. Without
your second patch, I do see the issue but only on the 2nd or later
invocation. In other words, if the xyzzy.lnk file does not initially exist,
the command 'src/mkshortcut/.libs/mkshortcut xyzzy' works and does create
the link file. Another invocation then shows the error. Is it simply
mis-reporting that there's an existing link file? I'm also assuming you're
in the /usr/src/cygutils-1.4.14-1.<arch>/build directory when you issue that
command.
..mark
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