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Subject: Re: bash, javac and that pesky slash.
References: <388C8C72 DOT 8BB82F3E AT chemconnect DOT com>
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From: Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp>
Date: 25 Jan 2000 04:35:04 +0900
In-Reply-To: Craig MacFarlane's message of Mon, 24 Jan 2000 09:31:30 -0800
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>>> On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 09:31:30 -0800
>>> Craig MacFarlane <craigm AT chemconnect DOT com> said:

> Sun's javac, in jdk1.2.1, seems to change the
> forward slashes used by bash to backward slashes
> used by windows.
> 
> e.g.
> 
>   bash-2.02% javac -d //d/destdir/classes foo.java
> 
> produces the error message
> 
>   The \\d\destdir\classes directory does not exist.

You can use a shell script like the following.

#!/bin/sh

params="/jdk1.2.2/bin/`basename '$0'`"
while [ $# -gt 0 ]
do
    if expr "$1" : '-.*' >/dev/null 2>&1
    then
	arg="$1"
    else
	arg=`cygpath -p -w "$1"`
    fi
    params="$params '$arg'"
    shift
done
eval "$params"

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  | AIST      Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp>
  | HOKURIKU  School of Information Science
o_/ 1990      Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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