From: gvaughan@oranda.demon.co.uk (Gary V. Vaughan)
To: Bernard Dautrevaux <DAUTREVAUX@microprocess.com>
Cc: "'Geoffrey Noer'" <noer@cygnus.com>,
Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.EDU>,
cygwin <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>,
Libtool List <libtool@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PB] "no acceptable ld" : cywin32 pb, way to handle win path ?
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 03:51:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u90dl75as.fsf@oranda.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Bernard Dautrevaux's message of "Fri, 26 Feb 1999 11:28:18 +0100"
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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From: gvaughan@oranda.demon.co.uk (Gary V. Vaughan)
To: Bernard Dautrevaux <DAUTREVAUX@microprocess.com>
Cc: "'Geoffrey Noer'" <noer@cygnus.com>,
Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.EDU>,
cygwin <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>,
Libtool List <libtool@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PB] "no acceptable ld" : cywin32 pb, way to handle win path ?
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 23:02:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u90dl75as.fsf@oranda.demon.co.uk> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990228230200.0Lv2V8RSYWpzC9jZnEyqbBdYcSTBmkW899DL310Jr54@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8135911A809AD211AF6300A02480D175034924@iis000.microdata.fr>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-02-26 3:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-26 2:32 Bernard Dautrevaux
1999-02-26 3:51 ` Gary V. Vaughan [this message]
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Gary V. Vaughan
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Bernard Dautrevaux
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1999-02-23 5:01 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-02-23 4:11 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-02-23 4:56 ` Gary V. Vaughan
[not found] ` < 36D2A59D.603BF54E@oranda.demon.co.uk >
1999-02-23 8:39 ` Mumit Khan
1999-02-23 8:54 ` Gary V. Vaughan
[not found] ` < 36D2DCFF.54E5B41F@oranda.demon.co.uk >
1999-02-25 23:04 ` Geoffrey Noer
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Geoffrey Noer
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Gary V. Vaughan
[not found] ` < 199902231639.KAA04761@modi.xraylith.wisc.edu >
1999-02-23 9:13 ` DJ Delorie
[not found] ` < 199902231713.MAA11397@envy.delorie.com >
1999-02-23 14:16 ` Mumit Khan
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Mumit Khan
1999-02-28 23:02 ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Mumit Khan
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Gary V. Vaughan
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
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1999-02-22 22:41 ` Sebastien Barre
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1999-02-28 23:02 ` Gary V. Vaughan
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