This is the mail archive of the cygwin mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: Problem with sh/bash and snapshot cygwin1-20050825.dll


On Aug 26 01:26, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 12:31:07AM -0400, Volker Quetschke wrote:
> >I just stumbled over the following problem:
> >
> >$ cat shelltest.sh
> >#! /bin/sh
> >ANT_HOME="/cygdrive/c/apache-ant-1.6.5/bin/.."
> >ANT_HOME=`cd "$ANT_HOME" && pwd`
> >
> >With cygwin1-20050825.dll:
> >$ ./shelltest.sh
> >./shelltest.sh: line 3: cd: /cygdrive/c/apache-ant-1.6.5/bin/..: No such 
> >file or directory
> >
> >With cygwin1-20050716.dll:
> >$ ./shelltest.sh
> >/cygdrive/c/apache-ant-1.6.5
> >
> >
> >If I change the first line to:
> >#! /bin/bash
> >it surprisingly works with both snapshots.
> 
> This is apparently due to Corinna's latest patch which attempts to get
> realpath working.  bash is calling cygwin_convert_to_full_posix_path
> on the /cygdrive/... above and the return value now is different than
> it used to be.
> 
> It's too late for me to investigate the problem but I'm sure that the
> morning support team will be able to handle it.

Sigh, the "morning support team" will have a look today.


Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader          mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com
Red Hat, Inc.

--
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/


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]