On Sat, 29 May 2021, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin-patches wrote: > On Sat, 29 May 2021, Jeremy Drake wrote: > > > First, revert the handling of virtual drives as non-symlinks. This is no > > longer necessary. > > > > Spoke too soon, it seems that `makepkg` uses `pwd -P` and that still > dereferences symlinks, as does `pwd -W` and `cygpath -w .` :(
With the two patches from the OP, plus patching `makepkg` to change all `pwd -P` to straight `pwd`, AND patching msys2's msys2_path_conv.cc `posix_to_win32_path` to use the new flag to path_conv, I was finally able to build the problematic package with the long name... I imagine `cygwin_conv_path` should have that flag too, for cygpath and `pwd -W`. Hopefully there's a better (less invasive) approach that I'm not seeing.
