Re: [PB] "no acceptable ld" : cywin32 pb, way to handle win path ?

[gvaughan@oranda.demon.co.uk (Gary V. Vaughan)]

Bernard Dautrevaux <DAUTREVAUX@microprocess.com> writes:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Geoffrey Noer [ mailto:noer@cygnus.com ]
> > Sent: Friday, February 26, 1999 8:04 AM
> > To: Gary V. Vaughan
> > Cc: Mumit Khan; cygwin; Libtool List
> > Subject: Re: [PB] "no acceptable ld" : cywin32 pb, way to handle win
> > path ?
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, Feb 23, 1999, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Not a problem as such, just a change.  The current libtool 
> > converts to
> > > UNC paths which I understand are no longer supported in winsup
> > > snapshots, so I need to rejig the code a bit more.
> > 
> > This shouldn't be the case.  //<drive-letter>/ support (which
> > conflicts with UNC support for machine names of one letter) will be
> > going away but we definitely intend to continue to support UNC path
> > names.
> > 
> > If UNC support is broken in current snapshots, please let me know...
> > 
> 
> Gary, I think you were saying that libtool converts drive:/path to
> //drive/path? this is not UNC, but some a bit crazy (because it forbids
> one letter machine names, and cause network timeouts if you refer to an
> unexisting drive, like //A/ if the floppy is not inserted) cygwin
> convention. This convention is now becoming obsolete and is no more
> supported in current snapshot, and replaced by /cygdrive/drive/path
> (with cygdrive configurable in the registry).

Yes, my bad.  Thanks for the clarification.  I plan to use
drive:/path/to/executable before the next libtool release.

Cheers,
	Gary.


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