tar -C dir option makes dir relative to current dir

[Bernard Dautrevaux]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Mountjoy [ mailto:mountjoy@netcomuk.co.uk ]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 4:38 PM
> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: tar -C dir option makes dir relative to current dir
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I have read all docs and couldn't solve my problem.  In a 
> make file I have:
>  cd foo && tar blah blah | tar -C j:/foobar
> 
> Now I run the make file from the l: drive (so l:/foo exists).
> 
> The problem is that when the tar on the right gets run, it 
> tries to place
> the files in the directory:
>   /cygdrive/l/foo/j:/foobar
> which of course isn't a valid directory.
> 
> I know I can solve it by not going over another filesystem, 
> but that isn't
> ideal.
> 
> Any ideas?  (I am running latest net release on W2K.  l: and 
> j: are mapped
> drives.  I also tried mounting them, didn't solve a thing. 
> WinNT Ver 5.0
> build 2195,
> Cygwin DLL version i   dll major: 1001     dll minor: 4    
> dll epoch: 19)


Did you try "... | tar -C /cygdrive/j/foobar" ?

The problem here is that for TAR (except if especially changed for cygwin)
j:/foobar is a *relative* path name, not an absolute one (it does not start
by a '/') :-(

The cygwin /cygdrive feature is just for that :-)

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