On Sep 1 16:41, David Allsopp wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Some of the path handling is seriously crippled as soon as you start using > > backslashes, and that's a delipberate decision and won't change, even after > > fixing the aforementioned bug. > > I don't quite follow this - does that mean that that path definitely > work even with a new Cygwin? i.e. our existing build system is > permanently broken for Cygwin 2.11+?
No. The problem we're talking about here is a regression and needs fixing, no doubt about it. I was just saying that win32 paths *in general* get a less complete treatment than POSIX paths for hopefully obvious reasons. Just be aware that \foo\bar is not the same as /foo/bar and may even point to another file. As for the bug in question: I pushed a patch which should fix this issue. I created new developer snapshots and uploaded them to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/. Please give them a try. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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