7/6/2004
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DESCRIPTION
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If you decided to update your cygwin lately, there is a good chance that 
running "make mica2" or the like will cause some of the files used in the 
compilation to be deleted.  This could be *.nc files, *.h files, and possibly 
others.  Worst of all, the deleted files may not necessarily be in the 
directory that your application resides in.


THE PROBLEM
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	When you update cygwin, the chain of compilation tools used to make a 
NesC application will have problems recognizing improperly formatted file 
paths.  As of now, I do not know which package installed by cygwin does this 
(the cygwin package itself, or gcc, or others).  In any case, 
/usr/local/bin/nescc calls 'cygpath -w' which produces path strings that are 
no longer properly recognized by the compilation tools. 

	This affects:
* nesc tools released with TinyOS-1.1 (rpm package Nesc-1.1-1w) and possibly 
  ones later.
* Cygwin downloaded after 7/2, and probably those downloaded a little before 
  that (how far before?  I don't know).


THE FIX
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* edit /usr/local/bin/nescc to use 'cygpath -m' instead of 'cygpath -w'
  This occurs on line 201.
* restore any files that may have been deleted.  The easiest way: use cvs 
  update on your tinyos-1.x directory (and pray that no one committed broken 
  files recently).
  ~ The most probable place for broken files is in the tinyos-1.x/tos 
    directory and  the directory where you tried to compile the
    application.
  ~ Losing files in the tinyos-1.x/tos directory may lead to random looking 
    error messages (ex. if you lost tos.h, you will have a lot of strange 
    errors complaining that only commands and events can be defined in 
    interfaces in StdControl.nc.  See cygpath_blink_compile_error.txt for a 
    sample of the standard_error that was generated when compiling Blink.nc)