cygpath problem in 1.3.20

[Elfyn McBratney]

> > I am experiencing a problem with 1.3.20 that seems to
> > be cygpath related.  Previously, I was using 1.3.17,
> > upgraded today, and I get errors when trying to run
> > Ant 1.5.1 (it ran just fine before).  After a little
> > fiddling, it appears that cygpath is still having some
> > problems.
> >
> > If I set JAVA_HOME to the following:
> >
> > c:\program files\ibm\websphere
> > studio\runtimes\aes_v4\java
> >
> > And run the following command:
> >
> > cygpath --windows --path "$JAVA_HOME"
> >
> > it returns the following:
> >
> > c;d:\program files\ibm\websphere
> > studio\runtimes\aes_v4\java
>
> This is by design as the `--windows|-w' coupled with `--path|-p'
swicthe(s)
> expect unix path's and thus get split by ':' characters.
>
> > Yes, that's really a c; at the start of the string.
> > Needless to say, this is munging up the script that
> > launches Ant big time.  It wasn't a problem at all in
> > the previous version of Cygwin I was running.
> >
> > Any help at all is appreciated, especially since
> > Cygwin is my primary command line build environment.
> > Thanks in advance.
>
> This was discussed in the last couple of weeks, where the thread starter
had
> the same "problem" as you. Can't see it yet, byt it's there ;-) Something
> like "[bug] cygpath version...".

I hit the send button rather quickly as reading my bits didn't quite make
sense. It all there in the archives tho :-)


Regards,

Elfyn McBratney
elfyn@exposure.org.uk
www.exposure.org.uk



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