Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <008d01c0fa59$1e489340$01000001@abeast1.com> From: "David Abrahams" To: "David Starks-Browning" Cc: References: <084b01c0f9ee$49e71eb0$1000a8c0@abeast1.com> <9314-Thu21Jun2001114851+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> Subject: Re: 1.3.2/Win2K: ar confused by drive letters Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:50:22 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Thanks for the info. Just for the record, are the cygwin tools supposed to support standard windows paths, or have I just been "lucky" so far? -Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Starks-Browning" To: "David Abrahams" Cc: Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 6:48 AM Subject: 1.3.2/Win2K: ar confused by drive letters > On Wednesday 20 Jun 01, David Abrahams writes: > > Note that when the target archive is to be built on the same drive as the > > current directory, there is no problem. I realize there are alternatives to > > the "e:\..." syntax which don't cause this problem, but the build system I'm > > using (Jam/MR) doesn't really allow me to form paths like file://e/... > > For the record, you wouldn't want to use file://e/... either. That form is > deprecated and will disappear in 1.3.3. You must use > /cygdrive/e/... (or use mount) instead. > > Regards, > David > > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple