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| author | David Starks-Browning <starksb@ebi.ac.uk> | 2001-07-06 04:40:38 +0400 |
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| committer | David Starks-Browning <starksb@ebi.ac.uk> | 2001-07-06 04:40:38 +0400 |
| commit | a79001009bd36bdc67215e527c1fb4069644ce26 (patch) | |
| tree | e32bfad23077a5fb0d337e3a5acdcb73c42c701a | |
| parent | 25c06979efce968960409c27e22aa2e906c84b2a (diff) | |
New entry "Why doesn't Cygwin tcl/tk understand Cygwin paths?"
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diff --git a/winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo b/winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo index b449754df..517b40a69 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo +++ b/winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo @@ -629,3 +629,12 @@ There is a bug in the Win32 API function GetFreeDiskSpace that makes it return incorrect values for disks larger than 2 GB in size. Perhaps that may be your problem? +@subsection Why doesn't Cygwin tcl/tk understand Cygwin paths? + +The versions of Tcl/Tk distributed with Cygwin (e.g. cygtclsh80.exe) are +not actually "Cygwin versions" of those tools. They are built with the +@samp{-mno-cygwin} option to @code{gcc}, which means they do not +understand Cygwin mounts or symbolic links. + +See the entry "How do I convert between Windows and UNIX paths?" +elsewhere in this FAQ. |