Problem with m68k-elf-ar and absolute Cygwin paths

[Anders Ejdeling]

I am using Sourcery G++ Lite from within the Cygwin shell to build eCos. I have followed the instructions in the Getting Started guide to set the CYGPATH variable.

Everything works fine except for calling m68k-elf-ar with an absolute path to the target. ar creates a temporary file but fails to rename it to the proper target name.

$ m68k-elf-ar -r /m68k-elf-ar_test/test.a m68k-elf-ar_test/testobj.o
c:\IB\gcc\m68k-elf-gcc-4.1-32\bin\m68k-elf-ar.exe: creating /m68k-elf-ar_test/test.a
c:\IB\gcc\m68k-elf-gcc-4.1-32\bin\m68k-elf-ar.exe: unable to rename '/m68k-elf-ar_test/test.a' reason: No such file or directory

Left in the directory 'm68k-elf-ar_test' is test.a (contains only an 8 byte header) and sta11296 (the temporary lib file).

Absolute paths works fine with m68k-elf-gcc and other Sourcery G++ Lite tools.

Tested with Sourcery G++ 4.1-32 for Coldfire ELF.

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Anders Ejdeling
Imaje AB

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