[MinGW-notify] [ mingw-Bugs-1249827 ] msys appending Win32 path to hyphen

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Bugs item #1249827, was opened at 2005-08-01 17:31
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Category: MSYS
Group: Known bugs
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 8
Private: No
Submitted By: Larry (x002009)
Assigned to: Cesar Strauss (cstrauss)
Summary: msys appending Win32 path to hyphen

Initial Comment:
Originally reported by John Vandenberg on 4:29:36 am 
2005-07-30 --- 
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

... one more or less character in the first argument does 
not generate the error. Only occurs in MSYS window, 
and not in DOS window.

Demonstration code follows:
[snip]
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int i;
for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) printf("arg[%d] = %s\n", i, argv[i]);
}
[/snip]

Earnie says he can reproduce it.

Larry B.


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Comment By: Martin Panter (vadmium)
Date: 2010-02-04 01:31

Message:
I installed msysCORE-1.0.13-2-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma and the problem is
fixed. Hooray!

$ bash -c "cmd.exe //c echo eighteen-char-word/ -"
eighteen-char-word/ -

Thanks


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Comment By: Martin Panter (vadmium)
Date: 2010-01-02 11:12

Message:
I've also been running into this problem and I fixed it. My changes are
attached to patch id. 2924882, since I couldn't figure out how to attach
files here.
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2924882&group_id=2435&atid=302435


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