Re: Fwd: Re: [Mingw-users] Autoconf MSYS_PREFIX_HACK

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Keith Marshall wrote:

> Below is a message I posted earlier today, on the MinGW-users list at
> SourceForge.
>
> The topic relates to getting autoconf generated configure scripts to provide
> an appropriate default ${prefix} value, for native Win32 builds of autoconf
> managed packages, when using MSYS/MinGW as the build environment.

Dealing with Windows paths from the unixish environment is a real 
problem.  For my package, I use a home-brewed shell script which 
obtains the actual Windows path based on the Cygwin/MinGW mount and 
applies the desired amount of backslash escaping to survive any 
remaining configure script processing.

The problem is not specific to the installation prefix.

I have attached the script for reference.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

winpath.sh
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