Re: [PATCH 0/7] Support for toolchains that are not $host-native.

[Peter Rosin]

Den 2010-09-02 16:02 skrev Charles Wilson:
> On 9/2/2010 9:06 AM, Peter Rosin wrote:
>> However, my previous suggestion with a naive_slashify instead of
>> naive_backslashify doesn't work either since MSYS turns @c:/foobar into
>> @c;c:\msys\1.0\foobar (or something similar, that was from memory) which
>> we must avoid at all cost. cygpath -m (instead of -w) is fine on Cygwin
>> though since Cygwin doesn't clobber @c:/foobar "for us".
>>
>> Maybe we can work around this by sanitizing the input files in ar-lib,
>> but that seems a bit horrible to me... I'll see if I can fix this
>> somehow. Suggestions welcome.
> 
> Actually, I think MSYS's heuristic for determining whether an argument
> contains a path -- and whether that path is already a dos-style one --
> should be improved so that args which match the regex
> 'address@hidden:alpha:]]:[/\]' are understood as dos-style abspaths.
> 
> I'll look into that.

That would be nice indeed.

> Oh, wait.
> 
> We'd also need to add exceptions for all of MSVC's command switches,
> which prohibit spaces between the switch and that path: -FoC:/bob/,
> -FeD:/fred, etc.  Ick.
> 
> I dunno if that's worth the effort -- or if it would even be accepted.
> After all, MSYS's reason for existence is to support MinGW, not MSVC...
> I could justify adding the '@' heuristic, because MinGW ar can use it,
> but the rest...
> 
> What do you think, Peter?

The rest is handled by the compile script (in automake) in my case...

Cheers,
Peter