X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: Tcl/tk doesn't seem to append .exe to symlinks in Cygwin Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:39:19 -0500 Message-ID: <297343D29C14AA4D822142893ABEAEF302284632@srv1163ex1.flightsafety.com> From: "Thrall, Bryan" To: Cc: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id k8FHd9BS023657 Thrall, Bryan wrote on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 7:10 PM: > I understand this is the place to report problems with Cygwin's tcltk > package? > > It looks like the wish.exe provided by tcltk doesn't properly handle > symbolic links to executables. A simple test case: > >>>>>>>>>>>> > $ ls -l foo.exe wishtest > lrwxrwxrwx 1 thrall FSUsers 11 Aug 29 18:31 foo.exe -> /bin/ls.exe > -rwxr-xr-x 1 thrall FSUsers 148 Aug 29 18:33 wishtest > > $ cat wishtest > #!/usr/bin/wish > > set B [open "|foo 2>@stdout" r+] > set I [gets $B ] > > frame .fr > label .fr.head -text "$I" > grid config .fr.head > pack .fr > > close $B > <<<<<<<<<<<<< > > When I run wishtest, I expect opening the pipe to find foo in the > current directory, but instead I get an error popup ("couldn't open > "foo": no such file or directory"). If you replace foo with foo.exe, > everything works fine. > > From my cygcheck output (let me know if you need the whole thing): > tcltk 20060202-1 > cygwin 1.5.18-1 > > Please CC me on replies; I'm not subscribed to the insight list. > > Thanks, (cc'd to cygwin list in case the insight list *isn't* the right place) Has anyone had a chance to look at this yet? Unfortunately I don't really have the time to dig my way through the insight code at the moment looking for a fix, so even some pointers that would speed up my search would be helpful. Thanks, -- Bryan Thrall FlightSafety International Bryan.Thrall@flightsafety.com . -- 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/