Re: base/Source/GNUmakefile patch

[Adam Fedor]

Stephen Brandon wrote:

> This patch is active only for MinGW32 targets.
>
> Whilst using absolute Windows paths (eg C:/) is the easiest
> way to configure and install for MinGW32, you don't really
> want hard coded drive letters in the binary. This patch
> strips off initial drive letters before GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT,
> GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT and GNUSTEP_NETWORK_ROOT are sent as "-D"
> defines to the compiler to be hard coded.
>
> There is a corresponding patch (see next e-mail) to NSUser.m
> which dynamically prepends the "system drive" drive letter
> to these paths at runtime if they are required.
>
> Note that if there are environment variables set for
> GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT etc at runtime, these hard coded paths
> and prepended drive letter are NOT consulted.


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