# [PATCH] git-gui - Unconditionally use absolute paths with Cygwin

1 messages from 2007-12-13 to 2007-12-13. Participants: Mark Levedahl.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/11274

## Mark Levedahl, 2007-12-13 14:02

Subject: [PATCH] git-gui - Unconditionally use absolute paths with Cygwin
Message-ID: <1197554546-2260-1-git-send-email-mdl123@verizon.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1197554546-2260-1-git-send-email-mdl123%40verizon.net

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The mapping of Windows vs Cygwin/Posix paths is arbitrary and not knowable
from the Posix side, so logic to determine whether to use relative paths
to locate the git-gui library just does not work on Cygwin. Fix this to
unconditionally use absolute path on Cygwin. (This fixes a regression
from 1.5.4).

Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net>
---
 git-gui/Makefile |   10 ++++------
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-gui/Makefile b/git-gui/Makefile
index 26ac4b6..c109eab 100644
--- a/git-gui/Makefile
+++ b/git-gui/Makefile
@@ -117,14 +117,12 @@ GITGUI_SCRIPT   := $$0
 GITGUI_RELATIVE :=
 GITGUI_MACOSXAPP :=
 
-ifeq ($(exedir),$(gg_libdir))
-	GITGUI_RELATIVE := 1
-endif
-
 ifeq ($(uname_O),Cygwin)
 	GITGUI_SCRIPT := `cygpath --windows --absolute "$(GITGUI_SCRIPT)"`
-	ifeq ($(GITGUI_RELATIVE),)
-		gg_libdir := $(shell cygpath --windows --absolute "$(gg_libdir)")
+	gg_libdir := $(shell cygpath --windows --absolute "$(gg_libdir)")
+else
+	ifeq ($(exedir),$(gg_libdir))
+		GITGUI_RELATIVE := 1
 	endif
 endif
 ifeq ($(uname_S),Darwin)
-- 
1.5.3.7.1167.g12f9a

```