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Re: Absolute paths in BFD
- To: binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Absolute paths in BFD
- From: "Mark E." <snowball3 at bigfoot dot com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 11:31:03 -0400
> I've noticed quite a few instances in BFD where absolute paths are
> tested by expecting the first character to be '/' (grep for "== '/'" to
> see how often this is done). This test breaks under cygwin when drive
> letters are used as part of a pathname.
>
> There should probably be a bfd function for absolute path-ness, and that
> called instead of explicitly doing the leading slash test.
>
A few months ago someone posted a series of patches to handle this very
problem. See:
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/binutils/1999-q3/msg00584.html
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/binutils/1999-q3/msg00585.html
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/binutils/1999-q3/msg00586.html
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/binutils/1999-q3/msg00587.html
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/binutils/1999-q3/msg00588.html
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/binutils/1999-q3/msg00589.html
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/binutils/1999-q3/msg00590.html