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Re: 3.81 and windows paths


On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 10:43:30AM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote:
>> Well, the whole point of cygwin is to give a POSIX-compatible 
>> environment in win32. So it's aiming to be like linux, not windows.
>> This means that if something like a makefile parses fine in linux, but 
>> not in cygwin (barring linker stuff), something is wrong.
>
>Yeah, what's wrong is that cl doesn't accept posix paths. For some
>reason, they were added, we all got addicted to it, and now it's being
>ripped out from underneath us. It's not a very friendly thing to do.

<profanity deleted>

cgf

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