Re: Windows tools can access /usr/share but not /usr/lib

2011-04-12 Thread Marc Girod
Jon TURNEY wrote: > > A brief glance at the man page should discover 'cygpath -w -f-' > Indeed... Sorry for missing this... Reini Urban wrote: > > $ perldoc perlcygwin > and Thanks for that which is exactly what I needed! And which I had missed as well! Marc -- View this message in context:

Re: Windows tools can access /usr/share but not /usr/lib

2011-04-12 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 12/04/2011 13:36, Reini Urban wrote: > 2011/4/11 Marc Girod: >> Andy Koppe wrote: >>> You should use the cygpath utility to translate Cygwin paths to >>> Windows paths, rather than just changing slashes and prefixing with >>> C:\cygwin. >> OK. Done. >> Now, my script will fork this for every arg

Re: Windows tools can access /usr/share but not /usr/lib

2011-04-12 Thread Reini Urban
2011/4/11 Marc Girod: > Andy Koppe wrote: >> You should use the cygpath utility to translate Cygwin paths to >> Windows paths, rather than just changing slashes and prefixing with >> C:\cygwin. > OK. Done. > Now, my script will fork this for every argument... > Can I spawn a 'cygpath -w', put it in

Re: Windows tools can access /usr/share but not /usr/lib

2011-04-11 Thread Marc Girod
Andy Koppe wrote: > > You should use the cygpath utility to translate Cygwin paths to > Windows paths, rather than just changing slashes and prefixing with > C:\cygwin. OK. Done. Now, my script will fork this for every argument... Can I spawn a 'cygpath -w', put it in the background, and get it

Re: Windows tools can access /usr/share but not /usr/lib

2011-04-08 Thread Illia Bobyr
On 4/8/2011 9:18 AM, Marc Girod wrote: > Andy Koppe wrote: > > > > > You should use the cygpath utility to translate Cygwin paths to > > Windows paths, rather than just changing slashes and prefixing with > > C:\cygwin. Apart from everything else, Cygwin might be installed > > somewhere other than

Re: Windows tools can access /usr/share but not /usr/lib

2011-04-08 Thread Marc Girod
Andy Koppe wrote: > > You should use the cygpath utility to translate Cygwin paths to > Windows paths, rather than just changing slashes and prefixing with > C:\cygwin. Apart from everything else, Cygwin might be installed > somewhere other than C:\cygwin. > I cope for that last problem with df

Re: Windows tools can access /usr/share but not /usr/lib

2011-04-08 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2011-04-08 11:04Z, Marc Girod wrote: [...] > While testing it on cygwin, I tried and failed to import it itself, from the > perl install directory, which > is under /usr/lib. > > The tool spawns an IBM utility built for Windows (in this case): cleartool. > It is this cleartool which cannot acce

Re: Windows tools can access /usr/share but not /usr/lib

2011-04-08 Thread Andy Koppe
On 8 April 2011 12:04, Marc Girod wrote: > I am enhancing/fixing a perl tool (published to CPAN) which allows to import > files into a ClearCase > database (vob): synctree. Among the enhancements is support for cygwin. > While testing it on cygwin, I tried and failed to import it itself, from the >