cygdrive, pwd, and windows apps

Fri May 19 07:57:00 GMT 2000

PWD = `pwd`
ROOT = `cygpath -w $PWD`
Jeremy Sheeley wrote:
>> I have a problem in that if i try:
>> notepad /cygdrive/c/sometextfile.txt
>> notepad (being a windows app) has no idea how to find /cygdrive. So how
> do I easily get the dos-style path? Here's the full context:
>> We have a cross-platform app that uses the same Makefiles on all the
> platforms. The first thing that we do is set a variable to the source's
> root directory using something like:
>> ROOT := $(shell pwd)
>> This will, if the source is outside the cygwin hierarchy, set ROOT to
> /cygdrive/c/blah. Then the compiler (which is cl, the Visual C++
> compiler) won't be able to find the source files.
>> one quick fix is to change the line to something like:
>> ROOT := $(shell pwd | sed 's/\/cygdrive\/\(.\)\//1円:\\/g')
>> which translates /cygdrive/c/ to c:\
>> BUT that's ugly, requires too much platform-specific knowledge in the
> Makefile and would require that we change all the Makefiles.
>> So to sum up: There has to be an easier way!! Any ideas?
>> -Jeremy Sheeley
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