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RE: base-files-mketc.sh


> From: Morrison, John [mailto:John.Morrison@uk.experian.com]

(I hate replying to myself :(

> > From: Paul Johnston [mailto:paj@pajhome.org.uk]
> > 
> > Hi John,
> > 
> > It's true that it doesn't work with the broken cygpath, but 
> > it doesn't do
> > anything bad in that case, and the bug is very clearly with 
> > the cygpath binary.
> > 
> > One thought I had was to add the second line to this error message:
> > 
> >   echo "Directory $WINETC does not exist; exiting" >&2
> >   echo "If directory name is garbage you need to update cygwin" >&2
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> I'd admit to being happier if that was in there, but I'd be happier
> still if an updated cygpath.exe was added :)  I don't know who the
> maintainer for that is...

Cygpath is part of the cygwin package.  I'm running the current latest
1.3.14-1, which was compiled on Wed, 23 Oct.  It still has the bug.

Perhaps this should be fixed first?

J.


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