Problem with relative path containing nonexisting directory

Problem with relative path containing nonexisting directory

[Jacob Kroon]

Hi,

I'm having problems compiling EGLIBC in Cygwin. I think the reason is
the following:

Doing "ls foobar/../" in a Cygwin terminal, where the directory
"foobar" does _not_ exist, still returns a valid file listing of the
current path.

Doing the same operation in Fedora, ls will print "No such file or directory".

Is this a bug in Cygwin ? Is there a configure option to enable the
Fedora-behaviour ?

Please CC me as I'm not a subscriber to the list.

Regards
Jacob

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Re: Problem with relative path containing nonexisting directory

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar 14 13:19, Jacob Kroon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having problems compiling EGLIBC in Cygwin. I think the reason is
> the following:
> 
> Doing "ls foobar/../" in a Cygwin terminal, where the directory
> "foobar" does _not_ exist, still returns a valid file listing of the
> current path.
> 
> Doing the same operation in Fedora, ls will print "No such file or directory".
> 
> Is this a bug in Cygwin ? Is there a configure option to enable the
> Fedora-behaviour ?
> 
> Please CC me as I'm not a subscriber to the list.

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-01/msg00173.html

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Re: Problem with relative path containing nonexisting directory

[Chris J. Breisch]

On 3/14/2013 9:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 14 13:19, Jacob Kroon wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm having problems compiling EGLIBC in Cygwin. I think the reason is
>> the following:
>>
>> Doing "ls foobar/../" in a Cygwin terminal, where the directory
>> "foobar" does _not_ exist, still returns a valid file listing of the
>> current path.
>>
>> Doing the same operation in Fedora, ls will print "No such file or directory".
>>
>> Is this a bug in Cygwin ? Is there a configure option to enable the
>> Fedora-behaviour ?
>>
>> Please CC me as I'm not a subscriber to the list.
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-01/msg00173.html
>

I would add the following. If you're trying to compile EGLIBC for 
Cygwin, I'm not sure if that's likely to be successful in any event. If 
you're cross-compiling for some other platform, I can verify that that 
works, as I've built a Cross Linux From Scratch from Cygwin.

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Re: Problem with relative path containing nonexisting directory

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Jacob Kroon!

> I'm having problems compiling EGLIBC in Cygwin. I think the reason is
> the following:

> Doing "ls foobar/../" in a Cygwin terminal, where the directory
> "foobar" does _not_ exist, still returns a valid file listing of the
> current path.

> Doing the same operation in Fedora, ls will print "No such file or directory".

> Is this a bug in Cygwin ? Is there a configure option to enable the
> Fedora-behaviour ?

This is a known issue with Cygwin path handling. Look in archives for an
in-depth explanation.

> Please CC me as I'm not a subscriber to the list.

You're supposed to subscribe, if you intend to receive replies.


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 14.03.2013, <18:45>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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