Greetings, Poor Yorick! > Currently, in a sh shell,
> cygpath 'c:\windows' > returns > /cygdrive/c/windows > and > cygpath 'c:\windows\.' > returns > /cygdrive/c/windows/ > . With the -m switch, the same pattern is followed, and in the case of > a > trailing, \. sequence, the dot is removed but the backslash is retained. > This > led to a bug (https://sourceforge.net/p/tkimg/bugs/84/) in a build > process > where the autoconf script looked something like this: > TEA_ADD_INCLUDES([-I\"`\${CYGPATH} \${tkimg_SRC_PATH}`\"]) cygpath is not a normalization tool. Use readlink, if you need normalized paths. > Because of the trailing backslash in the output of cygpath, the final > double > quote ended up getting escaped. > Rather than normalizing half of it away and leaving half of it, Wouldn't > it be > better to either not normalize the trailing slash-dot sequence at all, > or to > completely normalize it away? If that which is delimited is removed, it > would > seem to make sense to removed the delimiter as well. > The case that the incoming pathname already has a trailing delimiter is > one > that I think is already recognized and differentiated. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Monday, October 5, 2015 17:20:20 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
