Re: [Axiom-developer] HyperDoc

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

address@hidden writes:

| Quoting Waldek Hebisch <address@hidden>:
| 
| > Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| >> Waldek Hebisch <address@hidden> writes:
| >>
| >> | Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| >> |
| >> | > A while ago, I added support for relative paths -- that was a
| >> | > necessary step to make axiom.build-improvements buildable on Windows.
| >> |
| >> | Why do you want relative paths on Windows?  AFAICS relative paths
| >> | cause a lot of trouble and the simplest way to handle them is
| >> | converting to absolute path as soon as possible.
| >>
| >> I beg to disagree.
| >>
| >
| > Could you elaborate: you say that relative paths are needed on
| > Windows but you did not say why?
| 
| try to build Axiom out of source under MingW.
| 
| It gave me lots headache, only to discover later that the absolute
| path seen by configure is not the one other tools were expecting.
| A workaround was to use "pwd -W" -- only under mingw, because -W
| is a non-standard option, only to get into another whoop.


Oh, yeah, one more thing: mingw uses windows native tools, in
particular options  start with forward slash.  I don't remember the
exact details, but at some point some of the absolute paths (using
Unix-style notation) started being interpreted as options; it isn't funny.

-- Gaby