Re: Cygwin List O' Issues...[make install DESTDIR=]

[Earnie Boyd]

Charles Wilson wrote:
> > Also, since this is probably an 'is_absolute' check, it should really be
> > [\\/]* | ?:[\\/]* )  (cfr the File System Conventions chapter in
> > the autoconf manual's portability section).
>
>
>
> This part won't work.  It's possible we need a separate case for A:style 
> paths.  Because the rest of the patch does:
>
> +           add_dir="-L$inst_prefix_dir$libdir $add_dir"
>
> E.g. prepend the inst_prefix.  But A:/inst_prefix/A:/usr/lib is NOT a 
> valid path; for A:style paths you'd need to strip the drive specifier 
> from $libdir before prepending $inst_prefix...
>
> Help solicited...

IMO, it's not worth supporting.  A requirement of libtool and other 
autotools is a POSIX shell, so ...

Earnie.