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On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 08:47:32PM +0100, Achim Gratz wrote: > Tony Cook writes: > > 1.15 cygwin build issue, test failure > > Sorry to piggy-back on here, but I didn't find where this was discussed > on the list (if it was). It wasn't, I saw it failing in smoke testing (which I run for cygwin), and fixed it. > >From the date of the commit I assume that 636efde is (at least in part) > what's meant here. I suggest that the fix should be cherry-picked to > the 5.22.1 branch. > > To the fix itself, using df will eventually fail on some systems even > with the "-a" switch since you can't assume that a C: drive exists. A > more appropriate way to obtain the cygdrive prefix is to use It shouldn't fail, it should skip if there's no C: drive. > readlink "/proc/cygdrive" > > or `readlink -f /proc/cygdrive` or maybe even `cygpath -u C:` (the > latter works even if the drive in question doesn't exist and presumably > does so even on older versions of Cygwin that didn't have the /proc > pseudo-fs). If you have a patch, I'd be happy to review and probably apply it if you perlbug it. TonyThread Previous | Thread Next