On Oct 10 21:29, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Glen A Coakley wrote: > I believe this may be an instance of the error I reported in > <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg00552.html>. Basically, the > PATH conversion code stops whenever it encounters an invalid element in > the PATH. In my case it was due to strict case checking, but it seems to > be a more general problem. Basically, the Cygwin path conversion code > stops when it encounters a non-existent directory, and only returns the > part of the path it's converted so far. Since in your case the invalid > directory comes first, you get an empty PATH. > > A patch to turn off this behavior altogether is reasonably simple, but I'm > not sure it'll be accepted. The main question is whether this behavior is > desired. Corinna or Chris, care to comment?
This should be solved in current CVS (the general problem with non-existant directories, not the case_check stuff). Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/