Re: A few Windows build fixes

[Vijay Lakshminarayanan]

Andy Moreton <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu 01 Sep 2011, Vijay Lakshminarayanan wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Going through w32-fns.el, I see there's `w32-convert-standard-filename'
>> which actually replaces /cygdrive/ paths correctly.  Indeed, 
>>
>> (convert-standard-filename
>>  "/cygdrive/c/programs/emacs-24.0.50/lisp/w32-fns.el")
>>
>> ; => "c:\\programs\\emacs-24.0.50\\lisp\\w32-fns.el"
>>
>> does the right thing.
>
> This is buggy. The '/cygdrive' prefix can be replaced per-user or system
> wide - see the cygwin mount(1) manpage for details.

You're absolutely right.  This means that w32-convert-standard-filename
is broken.  Should I (or someone else) raise a bug?

>     AndyM

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Cheers
~vijay

Gnus should be more complicated.