Cygwin will accept the path "dir/../file" as being the same as "file", regardless of whether "dir" exists. Apprently, someone decided that a simple path-trimming rule would speed things up, but it is wrong. For example, it breaks building of xedit/lisp, where "lisp/../xedit.h" is not the same as "xedit.h". This occurs from bash and tcsh, so it must be in some low-level unix-to-win32 path name processing. Joe Krahn -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: cygcheck.out URL: <http://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/attachments/20050821/6841970b/attachment.ksh> -------------- next part -------------- -- 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/