Re: [Mingw-msys] msys appending Win32 path to hyphen

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

On 4:29:36 am 2005-07-30 John Vandenberg <ja...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have run into a problem where I think msys (1.0.11(0.46/3/2)) is
> accidentally munging the command line in a very strange way.
>
> On my system, including a hyphen as a parameter to a mingw binary will
> result in the msys root directory is being appended to a hyphen, as
> its Win32 path. i.e.
>
> $ /bin/mingw_echo.exe aaaaaaaaa/xxxxxxxx/ -
> arg[1] = aaaaaaaaa/xxxxxxxx/
> arg[2] = -D:/GNU/msys
>
> This occurs whenever one argument contains 2 slashes, 17 alphanums,
> and a subsequent argument is a single slash.  quoting doesn't help.
>
> Attached is a test case I used to determine what is contributing to
> the problem, and the output on my system.
>
> Any idea what could be causing this, or suggestions on how I could
> work around this?
>

Works for me!

$ mingw32-echo.exe aaaaaaaaa/xxxxxxxxx/ -
aaaaaaaaa/xxxxxxxxx/ -

$ cat mingw32-echo.c 

#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char * argv[])
{
        int i;

        for(i = 1; i < argc; i++)
        {
                printf("%s", argv[i]);
                if(i < argc - 1)
                    putchar(' ');
        }
        putchar('\n');

        return 0;
}

$ uname -a
MINGW32_NT-5.1 OH6000GBOYDE 1.0.11(0.46/3/2) 2005-03-29 16:28 i686 unknown