On Aug 17, 2008, at 10:35 PM, Johannes Sixt wrote:
On Sonntag, 17. August 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
MSYS' automatic path conversion causes problems when passing paths
as '-D'
arguments to the compiler. MSYS tries to be smart and converts
absolute
paths to native Windows paths. But we want the paths as we compute
them in
the Makefile.
Huh? Doesn't the Makefile compute paths like "/c/path/to/git"? We
certainly
don't want to compile such paths into git that in Windows speak
actually
mean "c:/path/to/git" - git is not an MSYS program and wouldn't
understand
the former. Which form of conversion are you refering to?
MSYS' automatic path conversion causes problems when passing paths as
defines ('-D' arguments to the compiler). MSYS tries to be smart and
converts absolute paths to native Windows paths, e.g. if MSYS sees
"/bin" it converts it to "c:/msysgit/bin". But we want completely
unmodified paths; e.g. if we set bindir in the Makefile to "/bin", the
define BINDIR shall expand to "/bin". Conversion to absolute Windows
path will takes place later, during runtime.
I'll update the commit message.
Steffen
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