On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Newton, Doug wrote:
> If this change is what is desired by the majority, that is fine. BUT, it
> should have been made clear that the fundamental behaviour of cygpath had
> changed. I have many scripts that no longer work. Even the jakarata ant
> tool's start-up script now mangles the classpath because of this change in
> behaviour.
This change makes the output correct. I suppose that would be something
desired by the majority...
> At least with version 1.21 (and I believe through 1.24, just glancing
> through the CVS history), the behaviour was always as follows:
>
> "cygpath --path --unix $UNIX_CLASSPATH" returns UNIX_CLASSPATH
> "cygpath --path --unix $DOS_CLASSPATH" return UNIX_CLASSPATH
> "cygpath --path --windows $UNIX_CLASSPATH" returns DOS_CLASSPATH
> "cygpath --path --windows $DOS_CLASSPATH" returns DOS_CLASSPATH
>
> Now the behaviour is as follows:
>
> "cygpath --path --unix $UNIX_CLASSPATH" returns a truncated UNIX_CLASSPATH
> if it is too long
Yes, because it treats it as one filename...
> "cygpath --path --unix $DOS_CLASSPATH" return UNIX_CLASSPATH
> "cygpath --path --windows $UNIX_CLASSPATH" returns DOS_CLASSPATH
> "cygpath --path --windows $DOS_CLASSPATH" returns a garbled DOS_CLASSPATH
> regardless of length (e.g. the path is transformed from "C:/home/build" to
> "C;c:/home/build"
Yes, because it treats ":" as a separator.
> We no longer have the option to run a classpath of unknown format through
> cgypath to make sure it is in a known format. This is the issue in the
> jakarta ant tool. It makes no assumptions on what the format of the path is
> -- it immediately converts it to unix regardless of the current format.
It makes an assumption that the format is Windows. Otherwise, there'd be
no need to convert to Unix format...
> This was the expected behaviour.
>
> Is there another utility that can be used to identify the format of a
> classpath? This will be needed to account for the changed behaviour in
> modifying scripts.
> --Doug Newton
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Umm, 'grep'? In particular, grep for a ";" or a "\" for a windows-format
path...
Igor
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