From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11100 invoked by alias); 12 May 2004 19:18:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 11085 invoked from network); 12 May 2004 19:18:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 12 May 2004 19:18:55 -0000 Received: from slinky.cs.nyu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4CJIsUS028476; Wed, 12 May 2004 15:18:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (pechtcha@localhost) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id i4CJIsZF028473; Wed, 12 May 2004 15:18:54 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 19:30:00 -0000 From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Joshua Daniel Franklin cc: Dave Yost , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygpath In-Reply-To: <20040512162136.13663.qmail@web61104.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20040512162136.13663.qmail@web61104.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 X-SW-Source: 2004-05/txt/msg00466.txt.bz2 On Wed, 12 May 2004, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > --- Dave Yost wrote: > [snip] > > I have a small problem. > > > > I have a path ../foo:../bar > > > > When I use the --path argument, cygpath insists on converting the relative > > paths into absolute paths. I wish it wouldn't do that. But I can understand > > the need for backward compatibility, so could I request a --relative option? > > You might use a simple sed script to take out what you don't need. Keeping relative paths might actually be useful functionality in cygpath. . > > Also: > > > > I have this nasty problem with the Sun 1.4.x JDK (fixed in 1.5.0-beta1). I > > pass in a classpath argument like this: > > > > javac -classpath `cygpath -w /usr/local/jdk/lib/tools.jar` X.java > > > > Problem is, /usr/local/jdk is a cygwin symlink, and the java runtime > > apparently can't follow symbolic links or shortcuts. > > I don't use Java with cygwin, so maybe someone else on the list will have > some ideas for this issue. Use mounts instead of symlinks. Alternatively, you can take the java wrapper script I posted to this list some time ago[*], and modify it to walk the classpath and resolve symlinks. Igor [*] or use the CVS version at :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/cygwin-apps (directory wrappers/java). -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/