Re: Path Problem When Emacs21 Built with Cygwin

[Yong LU]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 09:50:05PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 02:51:45 +0800
> > From: Yong LU <lyongu@ailab.pku.edu.cn>
> > > 
> > > Does the Make port you used have some switch or any other way to make
> > > it convert /cygdrive/x strings to the native Windows file-name format?
> > > If not, I don't see how this can be solved without resorting to
> > > tricks such as what David suggested.  However, such tricks is not
> > > something I'd gladly tell users to do.
> > 
> > I can't find such switch.  Maybe we should make a suggestion to cygwin's
> > developer?
> 
> Yes, please.

I just found this util in cygwin's distribution to convert pathnames.

$ cygpath
Usage: cygpath [-p|--path] (-u|--unix)|(-w|--windows [-s|--short-name]) filename

  -a|--absolute         output absolute path
  -c|--close handle     close handle (for use in captured process)
  -f|--file file        read file for path information
  -u|--unix             print Unix form of filename
  -w|--windows          print Windows form of filename
  -s|--short-name       print Windows short form of filename
  -W|--windir           print `Windows' directory
  -S|--sysdir           print `system' directory
  -p|--path             filename argument is a path
  -i|--ignore           ignore missing argument

$ cygpath -w /cygdrive/u/lyongu
u:\lyongu

I think this can be used when generating the makefile. Slashes are also
converted to backslashes, so maybe we should quote the result.

Yong