From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16494 invoked by alias); 19 Jun 2013 17:57:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 16480 invoked by uid 89); 19 Jun 2013 17:57:20 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-4.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from etr-usa.com (HELO etr-usa.com) (130.94.180.135) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:57:17 +0000 Received: (qmail 77301 invoked by uid 13447); 19 Jun 2013 17:57:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO [172.20.0.42]) ([107.4.26.51]) (envelope-sender ) by 130.94.180.135 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 19 Jun 2013 17:57:15 -0000 Message-ID: <51C1F0F9.70601@etr-usa.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:38:00 -0000 From: Warren Young User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin-L Subject: Re: Adding MSYS functionality to Cygwin References: <51C0B08E.8080900@etr-usa.com> <51C0D956.4090905@etr-usa.com> <51C1B299.1000701@cwilson.fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <51C1B299.1000701@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2013-06/txt/msg00517.txt.bz2 On 6/19/2013 07:31, Charles Wilson wrote: > > http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Posix_path_conversion That's good info. I'm glad to see that relative paths are never molested. I tried for a while to confuse Cygwin and native Windows programs using relative paths, and failed to find a case where the path doesn't mean the same thing to both sides. > Not all packages are cross-compiler-compatible. Is that another way of saying that not all packages use autotools? :) You're not talking about anything different than the sort of thing Cygwin package maintainers go through, sometimes needing to arm-twist odd build systems to behave according to cygport's expectations? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple