Re: Recursive copy problem in cygwin

[Mark Burgess]

I don't know of anyone else who has had this problem - can someone else
who uses the cygwin version please tell me if this fix is correct?

Mark

On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 11:58 -0800, Trask wrote:
> I found a fix -- I don't know if the problem I am having is something
> I am causing, but in case it is useful to someone else, here is what I
> did:
> 
> In src/cf.defs.h, there is a section that looks like this:
> 
> --------------------------------------
> /* File node separator (cygwin can use \ or / but prefer \ for communicating
>  * with native windows commands). */
> 
> #ifdef NT
> #  define IsFileSep(c) ((c) == '\\' || (c) == '/')
> #  define FILE_SEPARATOR '\\'
> #  define FILE_SEPARATOR_STR "\\"
> #else
> #  define IsFileSep(c) ((c) == '/')
> #  define FILE_SEPARATOR '/'
> #  define FILE_SEPARATOR_STR "/"
> #endif
> --------------------------------------
> 
> I altered the "NT" separators leaving the section looking like this:
> 
> #ifdef NT
> #  define IsFileSep(c) ((c) == '\\' || (c) == '/')
> #  define FILE_SEPARATOR '/'
> #  define FILE_SEPARATOR_STR "/"
> #else
> #  define IsFileSep(c) ((c) == '/')
> #  define FILE_SEPARATOR '/'
> #  define FILE_SEPARATOR_STR "/"
> #endif
> --------------------------------------
> 
> I did this, plus forced "NT" to be defined in all the source files
> that included an "#ifdef NT" directive by adding these lines somewhere
> near the top:
> 
> #ifndef NT
> #define NT
> #endif
> 
> --------------------------------------
> 
> If there is anyone that can collaborate my findings or give me an
> explanation of why this happened, I would love to hear it.
> 
> ~Trask
> 
> 
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