On Wed, 12 May 2004, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > --- Dave Yost wrote: > [snip] > > I have a small problem. > > > > I have a path ../foo:../bar > > > > When I use the --path argument, cygpath insists on converting the relative > > paths into absolute paths. I wish it wouldn't do that. But I can understand > > the need for backward compatibility, so could I request a --relative option? > > You might use a simple sed script to take out what you don't need.
Keeping relative paths might actually be useful functionality in cygpath. <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>. > > Also: > > > > I have this nasty problem with the Sun 1.4.x JDK (fixed in 1.5.0-beta1). I > > pass in a classpath argument like this: > > > > javac -classpath `cygpath -w /usr/local/jdk/lib/tools.jar` X.java > > > > Problem is, /usr/local/jdk is a cygwin symlink, and the java runtime > > apparently can't follow symbolic links or shortcuts. > > I don't use Java with cygwin, so maybe someone else on the list will have > some ideas for this issue. Use mounts instead of symlinks. Alternatively, you can take the java wrapper script I posted to this list some time ago[*], and modify it to walk the classpath and resolve symlinks. Igor [*] <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg00174.html> or use the CVS version at :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/cygwin-apps (directory wrappers/java). -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
