RE: paths on mingw

[Bernard Dautrevaux]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Van Holder [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 9:23 PM
> To: stefan
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: paths on mingw
> 
> 
> > Cygwin bash does not care and "a  mingw-compiled bash" is 
> impossible since
> > there's no fork(). It is also because mingw never wanted to 
> be a posix
> > emulation layer.
> 
> The lack of fork just makes it slightly more challenging 
> (DJGPP also has no
> fork(), but has a fully functional bash).  But I see your point.
> 
> I suppose libtool could include such a transformation (it's 
> easy enough:
> something like "sed s,/cygdrive/\(.\)/,\1:/,g" should do).  

As this is only needed when host=cygwin target!=cygwin, this can be in this
case replaced by the more appropriate cygwin-specific invokation:

        cygpath -w $path


> So please either
> submit a patch, or point out the specific places where such a 
> change would
> be required.  I'm surprised this doesn't cause problems for configure
> scripts as well.
> 

Probably because configure scripts only call cygwin-provided tools, that
understand cygwin paths; remember these scripts are *meant* to be portable
:-)

HTH

        Bernard

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