On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 07:47:09PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Paul Eggert wrote on Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 12:34:47AM CET: > > Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@xxxxxx> writes: > > > Maybe we can agree on some suitable header snippet and put that in the > > > Autoconf documentation? > > > > This is an instance of a more general problem: the choice of shell on > > the build host as opposed to the target host. It's kind of a messy > > area now. I suspect it's better to work on the more-general problem > > than worry only about the path separator. > > Agreed. Keith's (very nice!) explanation about the relationship of the > different w32 shell environments (why don't you, after hashing out the > details, put up a page in the MinGW wiki like that?) makes me want to > call the MinGW/MSYS combo as a semi-cross-compile environment, where > things at run time are slightly different from things at build time. > Yeah, I know, it's not a good analogy and a bit far fetched, but still. Hi, Yes, thanks Keith! For the simple minded like myself, does this boil down to the fact that the PATH_SEPARATOR is different if an application is run from a cmd or msys shell? If so, how can autoconf possibly help in this situation? Thanks, Bob Rossi _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
