On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:07:23PM -0500, Lee Dilkie wrote: > > >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 06:33:03PM -0500, Lee Dilkie wrote: >> >>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>> >>> Thanks for the reply Larry. >>> >>>>> It is reporting an absolute path for >>>>> windows style in all invocations and ignoring the absence of -a. >>>>> >>>>> $ cygpath -w foo >>>>> C:\foo >>>>> >>>>> $ cygpath -wa foo >>>>> C:\foo >>>>> >>>>> $ cygpath -u foo >>>>> foo >>>>> >>>>> $ cygpath -ua foo >>>>> /cygdrive/c//foo >>>>> >>>> WJFFM. What does 'cygpath --version' report for you? Mine is 1.42.4.1. >>>> Perhaps you're out of date? >>>> >>>> >>> $ cygpath --version >>> cygpath (cygwin) 1.51 >>> Path Conversion Utility >>> Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, >>> 2007, 2008 Red Hat, Inc. >>> Compiled on Oct 30 2008 >>> >>> I forgot to mention this is a cygwin 1.7 issue, my 1.5 version worked fine. >>> >> >> Sorry but this WJFFM in cygwin-1.7.0-31 although the double // in the >> -ua case is annoying. >> >Sorry, but where is the manual or documentation for 1.7.?
1.7.0 hasn't been released. It's in a "If you have to ask you probably shouldn't be using it" state. cygpath --help Will provide you with accurate help. >Is it intentional that the output of cygpath would change in such a >non-backwards-compatible way? Showing only absolute paths in windows >broke my makefile scripts. Please don't jump to conclusions. No one has said anything about changing the output of cygpath. If you read http://cygwin.com/problems.html that is one of the subtle points that is trying to be made. Once again: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJFFM >> You asked how to report problems. The answer to your question is at the >> bottom of every message to the cygwin mailing list: >> >>> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html cgf -- 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/
