1.7.35 Bash spawned by Perl has DOS-style argv0

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Feb 14 14:23, John Warburton wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> After upgrading my installation from about two months ago to 1.7.35, a
> Bash shell opened by Perl (as used in Gnu Autotools) now sees
> DOS-style paths in its $argv0 variable instead of Unix-style paths
> and, consequently, errors occur. Before I upgraded my installation,
> everything was fine.
> 
> Here is a simple test case I have written.
> [...]
>    Filename 2: perlpath.pl
> 
> use Cwd 'abs_path';
> print "My absolute path is: ";
> print abs_path($0);
> print "\n";
> print "Now to run Bash again, and view its argv...\n";
> system ("./pathtest_2.sh");
> 
>    Filename 3: pathtest_2.sh
> 
> argv0=${0##*/}
> echo "After execution from Perl, I have set argv0 to ${argv0} and 0 to ${0}"
> echo "This is Bash version ${BASH_VERSION}"

Thanks for the testcase!  The problem you're describing is the result of
a thinko when I revamped the PATH finding functionality in Cygwin a
couple of days ago.  I fixed that in CVS.  I will upload a new developer
snapshot for testing to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ later today.

> Is anyone else experiencing this? Are there any ways to force Bash
> shells run from Cygwin Perl to see Unix style paths, especially when
> Perl itself reports a Unix style path?

You *did* notice that 1.7.35 is a *test* release, did you?

Fortunately you actually tested it before it was released :)

The actual official stable release is 1.7.34, and it's of course
not affected by this problem.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
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