[PATCH] Cygpath enhancement

[jorg dot schaible at db dot com]

Hi,

using the Cygwin environment and maintaining a make system for several users there are often troubles because of users that have blanks in their paths. Since I've seen several requests for shart path names within the list I just added the option -s (or --short-name) to the cygpath utility that can be used in combination with the -w option to receive the filenames or the path in the short form of Windows.

/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Internet Explorer $ cygpath -was IEXPLORE.EXE
C:\PROGRA~1\INTER~\IEXPLORE.EXE
/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Internet Explorer $ cygpath -wp $CLASSPATH
.;C:\PROGRA~1\JBUILDER\JRE\LIB

Additionally I added an option -i (or --ignore) to prevent the Cygpath utility showing the "usage message" when the filename argument is omitted. This comes in handy using cygpath in make rules passing files as optional argument to Windows/DOS based utilities. Otherwise the "usage message" would always be printed using stderr.

RESFILE=
OBJFILE=util.obj

%.exe: %.obj $(RESFILE)
     link $(cygpath -w $<) $(cygpath -wi $(RESFILE))


Patches for cygpath.cc and utils.sgml attached made from the tarball source of cygwin-1.2.2.tar.gz.

Greetings,
Jörg

(See attached file: utils.sgml.diff)(See attached file: cygpath.cc.diff)

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