how do I report a bug in cygpath

Tue Nov 11 05:32:00 GMT 2008

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:07:23PM -0500, Lee Dilkie wrote:
>>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 06:33:03PM -0500, Lee Dilkie wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>>>>>>> Thanks for the reply Larry.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It is reporting an absolute path for
>>>>>> windows style in all invocations and ignoring the absence of -a.
>>>>>>>>>>>> $ cygpath -w foo
>>>>>> C:\foo
>>>>>>>>>>>> $ cygpath -wa foo
>>>>>> C:\foo
>>>>>>>>>>>> $ cygpath -u foo
>>>>>> foo
>>>>>>>>>>>> $ cygpath -ua foo
>>>>>> /cygdrive/c//foo
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sorry but this WJFFM in cygwin-1.7.0-31 although the double // in the
>>> -ua case is annoying.
>>>>>>>> Sorry, but where is the manual or documentation for 1.7.?
>>>> 1.7.0 hasn't been released. It's in a "If you have to ask you probably
> shouldn't be using it" state.
>> cygpath --help
>> Will provide you with accurate help.
>Thanks, but I guess I was looking for more along the lines of change
logs or something. You know, a headsup along the lines of the faw for
1.5. But as you say, it's still in development.
>>> Is it intentional that the output of cygpath would change in such a
>> non-backwards-compatible way? Showing only absolute paths in windows
>> broke my makefile scripts.
>>>> Please don't jump to conclusions. No one has said anything about
> changing the output of cygpath
Sorry, I misunderstood your "WJFFM in cygwin 1.7.0-31" comment. I
thought you meant that this output was intentional.
So that now leaves us with my my cygwin 1.7 install produces the same
output for "cygpath -m foo" and "cygpath -ma foo". I have tried this on
two machines, with the same results.
$ cygpath foo
foo
$ cygpath -m foo
C:/Documents and Settings/v-leed/foo
$ cygpath -ma foo
C:/Documents and Settings/v-leed/foo
$
And while I'm at it... Dumb question. How do I find out what version of
cygwin is installed? You're comment about 1.7.0-31 has me curious.
> .
>> If you read
>> http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>> that is one of the subtle points that is trying to be made.
>I have read that page in the past, and again just now. I'm not seeing
the subtle point... 'course it could be *real* subtle... ;)
> Once again: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJFFM
>>>>> You asked how to report problems. The answer to your question is at the
>>> bottom of every message to the cygwin mailing list:
>>>>>>>>>> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>>>>>> cgf
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