On Mar 1 11:08, Fergus wrote:
> Weird or what.
>
> My Cygwin [1.7] is located at the root of a mobile hard drive and a
> simple DOS dir command now shows a directory named . as in
>
> M:\>dir /ad
> Volume in drive M has no label.
> Volume Serial Number is 4B6B-CC15
>
> Directory of M:\
>
> 01/03/2010 08:39 <DIR> Recycled
> 05/02/2010 09:06 <DIR> bin
> 05/02/2010 09:06 <DIR> dev
> 05/02/2010 09:07 <DIR> etc
> 01/03/2010 07:10 <DIR> home
> 05/02/2010 09:15 <DIR> lib
> 05/02/2010 09:15 <DIR> opt
> 05/02/2010 09:15 <DIR> sbin
> 05/02/2010 09:15 <DIR> srv
> 05/02/2010 09:15 <DIR> tmp
> 05/02/2010 09:55 <DIR> usr
> 05/02/2010 09:55 <DIR> var
> 01/03/2010 09:44 <DIR> .
> 0 File(s) 0 bytes
> 13 Dir(s) 2,571,448,320 bytes free
>
> The time stamp is identical to the most recent update (python-pyrex
> + lilypond + sysvinit):
>
> dir \etc\setup \od
>
> {many files}
> 27/02/2010 07:08 168 mintty.lst.gz
> 01/03/2010 09:42 10 timestamp
> 01/03/2010 09:44 913 python-pyrex.lst.gz
> 01/03/2010 09:44 2,138 lilypond.lst.gz
> 01/03/2010 09:44 69,046 installed.db
> 01/03/2010 09:44 303 sysvinit.lst.gz
> 01/03/2010 09:45 148 setup.rc
>
>
> and I can only think that something strange happened during the update.
>
> Meanwhile, even with a Linux rescue disk, I have no idea how to
> delete the extra directory. Consequences are that DOS commands like
>
> dir /s
> attrib /s
>
> result in endlessly nested looped output
Oh boy. I didn't even know that NT allows that.
That's two bugs in one. The lilypond package has paths with leading
"./" in it, and setup.exe does not recognize that and remove the dot
path.
For now I have removed the latest lilypond package from the distro.
Jan, can you please fix your package not to have leading ./ in the path?
As for setup.exe, I have to have a look how to avoid that.
What you can try to get rid of the directory is this:
del \\?\M:\.
rmdir \\?\M:\.
If that doesn't work, maybe there's a chance to rename the directory
using the \\?\fullpath syntax. Or, if that doesn't work, maybe you
can at least move the files out of that dir.
Corinna
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