BRM wrote: > I´ve been playing around with it a bit today, mostly > MSYS, and have thus far only had one issue with it - > cl won´t compile the program because of bad parameters > being passed to it (since MSYS uses // instead of /). > (Not sure if that´s an issue for you guys, mingw-msys, > or the cccl guy; advice appreciated.) Does MSVC not allow you to use `-' rather than `/' as the switch leader? MSYS uses a *leading* `//' to tell its shell that this should be passed to the child program as a literal `/', rather than have it transliterated to backslashes, so the child can recognise Windows style paths -- this is for the benefit of inept MS programs, which refuse to recognise path names using `/' as a directory name separator, in spite of the *native* support for this which is built in to the Windows kernel. Of course, you could avoid this issue entirely, by adopting the MinGW implementation of GCC, instead of MSVC, so that you have an entirely GNU build environment :-) Regards, Keith. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
