[1.7] cygpath broken?

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Apr 17 09:54:00 GMT 2009


On Apr 16 23:57, Greg Couch wrote:
> Thank you Corinna for looking into this.
> 
> So I tried rebuilding cygwin1.dll in 1.7 with gcc-4 from the
> instructions in http://cygwin.com/cvs.html and
> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.programming.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin,
> and while the make didn't finish (perl hung -- "... fatal error -
> unable to remap  ...\Glob.dll to same address as parent ..."), it did
> produce new-cygwin1.dll.  And with that new-cygwin1.dll installed as
> /bin/cygwin1.dll, I now get:
> 
>      $ cygpath -w image.png
>      e.png
> 
> That is, the first four characters are missing.
> 
> So my next question is how should I be rebuilding the 1.7 cygwin1.dll?

You must also use the new cygpath.


Corinna

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