The log indicates that the removal should be benign as it eliminated a warning but in my case (and others based on googling the error message) it prevents the cycwin path from being constructed correctly.
I'm not a cycwin expert - anyone have any insight?
-----Original Message-----
From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Maynard
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 9:06 AM
To: wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Problem with tools/win-setup.sh
Weir, Alan <AWeir@...> writes:
> Suspecting a path issue I compared the win-setup.sh from the 1.4 and 1.7
> releases and found that the four lines of the form:
>
> DEST_PATH=`cygpath --dos "$2"`
>
> Had been modified in 1.7 to remove the –dos flag. I
> added this flag back in and re-ran the setup phase without any errors.
>
> Why was this flag removed?
The log message for r34375 explains why the change was made.
See: http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=34375
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