Re: [PATCH] escape / to avoid problems with msys (mingw)

[Adam Fedor]

I've added this for the 1.6.0 release

On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 08:45 AM, Wim Oudshoorn wrote:

> The msys shell is very smart, it replaces everything that looks
> like a unix path to a windows path.  This means thet the commandline
> flag to gcc get mangled.  So for example:
>
> -DGNUSTEP_INSTALL_PREFIX=/e/GNUstep
>
> will change to
>
> -DGNUSTEP_INSTALL_PREFIX=e:\GNUstep
>
> This will lead in the compilation of NSUser.m to the following 
> problems:
>
> A - a warning that it does not understand \G in strings.
> B - a wrong predefined path.
>
> This in turn will prevent GNUstep from finding some charset data etc.
>
>
> Wim Oudshoorn.
>
>
>
> 2003-02-17    <woudshoo@agilisys.com>
>
>         * GNUmakefile (GNUSTEP_TARGET_INSTALL_PREFIX)
> 	(GNUSTEP_TARGET_LOCAL_ROOT, GNUSTEP_TARGET_NETWORK_ROOT): on mingw32 
> replace
>         / with \\057.  This to avoid the msys shell of translating / with \.
>
>
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