Re: Could rm remove files and folders with colon in their name?

[Mario Emmenlauer <mario@emmenlauer.de>]

Hi Brian,

On 10.11.21 17:35, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2021-11-10 02:45, Mario Emmenlauer wrote:
>> PS: These folders are created when I use the Cygwin-based build system
>> for ICU (see https://unicode-org.github.io/icu/userguide/icu4c/build.html#how-to-build-and-install-on-windows-with-cygwin)
>> For me this is in a combination with native Perl for Windows (ActivePerl,
>> in my case), and using absolute build paths. After using ICU's build
>> system, I can not remove the build tree anymore. It may be possible to
>> solve this on the ICU side too. But their automake-and-Perl-based path
>> mangling is not easily modified, and I've failed to isolate the root
>> cause of the illegal paths.
> 
> Install the Cygwin cygport and libicu-devel source and binary packages and use only Cygwin exclusively with cygport to avoid problems.


I'm not sure that this is what I want. I want to build ICU with Visual
Studio and the ClangCl compiler frontend from LLVM 13.0.0. Their build
system can use Cygwin for this combination to orchestrate and configure
the build - which I very much like :-)

Sorry that I did not mention this in my email.

The build works fine and I get native ICU shared libraries like I want.
The only "downside" is that it creates the unsupported folders :-)

Cheers,

    Mario


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