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RE: File name resolution ...
- To: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>, "'Andrew dot Bianchi at isltd dot insignia dot com'" <Andrew dot Bianchi at isltd dot insignia dot com>
- Subject: RE: File name resolution ...
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 22:27:16 +0400
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Andy Bianchi wrote:
> Looking at the Configure script it appeared to be trying to
> do mkdir ../.config which failed.
>
> When I tried to do this manually it also failed!!
>
> In fact ls ../ didn't work! If, however I do ls ../ from
> the dos prompt it works fine.
>
> Is there some problem with file name resolution/globbing
> when running in 'UNIX' land??
>
> I did a trace of ls (STRACE=5) and there is a line:
>
> \\.\d:\gnuwin32\b18\.\u:\gnu\perl\cygnus\perl5.004_01\ =
> conv_to_win32_path (../)
>
> Which to me looks very strange, ../ should be
> u:\gnu\perl\cygnus\perl5.004_01\ I would have thought.
>
I just tried "ls ../" from bash prompt - all is ok. Probably, I've fixed this problem while fixing the other one :-)
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