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Re: cygwin Perl uses File/Spec/Unix.pm instead of File/Spec/Win32.pm


From: "George Necula" <necula@eecs.berkeley.edu>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 10:32
Subject: Bug: cygwin Perl uses File/Spec/Unix.pm instead of
File/Spec/Win32.pm


>  To reproduce the bug:
> perl -e 'use File::Spec; print
File::Spec->file_name_is_absolute("C:/test")
> ? "no bug" : "bug";'
>
>  To fix the bug add a line
>
>    cygwin => 'Win32',
>
>  at the beginning of File/Spec.pm in the definition of the %modules hash
> table.


This is a standard Perl module, so you should send bug reports to
perlbug@perl.org.  Run perlbug to help you format the report to them.
File/Spec/Unix.pm already has a special case for Cygwin in canonpath, so
they may be willing to make another special case for "x:/".

Try "/cygdrive/c/test" instead, "C:/test" isn't a POSIX path.

By using File/Spec/Win32.pm, you are causing other filename handling to be
done incorrectly for Cygwin.
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