From: sos@prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: File name resolution ... 23 Jul 1997 18:11:08 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BC97B7.94289C30.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos> Original-To: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" , "'Andrew.Bianchi@isltd.insignia.com'" Encoding: 27 TEXT Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Andy Bianchi wrote: > Looking at the Configure script it appeared to be trying to > do mkdir ../.config which failed. > > When I tried to do this manually it also failed!! > > In fact ls ../ didn't work! If, however I do ls ../ from > the dos prompt it works fine. > > Is there some problem with file name resolution/globbing > when running in 'UNIX' land?? > > I did a trace of ls (STRACE=5) and there is a line: > > \\.\d:\gnuwin32\b18\.\u:\gnu\perl\cygnus\perl5.004_01\ = > conv_to_win32_path (../) > > Which to me looks very strange, ../ should be > u:\gnu\perl\cygnus\perl5.004_01\ I would have thought. > I just tried "ls ../" from bash prompt - all is ok. Probably, I've fixed this problem while fixing the other one :-) -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia Looking for a job - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".