On Mar 1 13:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 1 13:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Mar 1 12:32, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Mar 1 11:08, Fergus wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > [...] > > > > > > 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. > > > > The problem is, I can't reproduce it. I created two test packages, > > one with a file "./file" in it, the other with a file "tmp/./file". > > In both cases, setup.exe failed to create the file and showed a > > message "unable to extract ...". > > > > This was on Windows 7. What Windows are you using? Maybe an older > > version allows it. Unless I can create the "." directory myself, > > I can't fix it. > > On Windows XP I can't reproduce it either. Hmm.
Are you sure the directory name is really "."? Could you please have a look if the directory isn't called ". " with one or more trailing spaces? Creating such directories is no problem and removing isn't a problem either: $ rmdir ". " Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
