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Re: rotd09-25, cygwin beta18
- To: Dominique de Waleffe <ddw at acm dot org>
- Subject: Re: rotd09-25, cygwin beta18
- From: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU>
- Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 20:52:01 +1000
- Cc: rpa at miscrit dot be, Cygnus GNU-win32 mailing list <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
- References: <006301bdf4f8$f5dcd8c0$c0c0c0c0@ddwhomepc>
On 11-Oct-1998, Dominique de Waleffe <ddw@acm.org> wrote:
> [...] I did an install with a --prefix=//h/m on my home pc.
>
> I then tried to compile an example using the odbc package.
> It could not find the mercury_imp.h file even though gcc
> received -I//h/m/lib/mercury/inc as argument....
>
> The file was at its expected place. when I mounted h:/m as /mercury
> and temporarily patched the mgnuc script, I was able to compile the
> file. Could it be that b18 gcc does not fully handle the //drive/dir
> notation?
Yes, I believe that gcc assumes Unix file naming semantics, where
`//' is the same as `/'.
Could anyone on the gnu-win32 mailing list confirm that this is the
case? Also, does anyone know if this is fixed in b19, or whether
it will be fixed in b20?
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