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Re: cygdrive, pwd, and windows apps
- To: Jeremy Sheeley <jeremy at sourcegear dot com>
- Subject: Re: cygdrive, pwd, and windows apps
- From: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 11:01:42 -0400
- CC: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <392553C7.66AE6190@sourcegear.com>
PWD = `pwd`
ROOT = `cygpath -w $PWD`
Jeremy Sheeley wrote:
>
> I have a problem in that if i try:
>
> notepad /cygdrive/c/sometextfile.txt
>
> notepad (being a windows app) has no idea how to find /cygdrive. So how
> do I easily get the dos-style path? Here's the full context:
>
> We have a cross-platform app that uses the same Makefiles on all the
> platforms. The first thing that we do is set a variable to the source's
> root directory using something like:
>
> ROOT := $(shell pwd)
>
> This will, if the source is outside the cygwin hierarchy, set ROOT to
> /cygdrive/c/blah. Then the compiler (which is cl, the Visual C++
> compiler) won't be able to find the source files.
>
> one quick fix is to change the line to something like:
>
> ROOT := $(shell pwd | sed 's/\/cygdrive\/\(.\)\//\1:\\/g')
>
> which translates /cygdrive/c/ to c:\
>
> BUT that's ugly, requires too much platform-specific knowledge in the
> Makefile and would require that we change all the Makefiles.
>
> So to sum up: There has to be an easier way!! Any ideas?
>
> -Jeremy Sheeley
>
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