Re: [Mingw-users] Automatic path translation....

[Earnie <ea...@us...>]

> From: Scott Neugroschl 
> 
> > I don't understand this.  If you use -DMY_MACRO=//usr/local/mypath
> > then MSYS simply removes the first / and passes that to the program.
Sed
> shouldn't be needed.
> 
> Not quite:
> 
> $ cat a.c
> FRED
> $ c89 -DFRED=/usr/local/fred -E a.c
> #line 1 "c:\\Users\\scott_n\\a.c"
> C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/local/fred
> $ c89 -DFRED=//usr/local/fred -E a.c
> #line 1 "c:\\Users\\scott_n\\a.c"
> / /usr/local/fred
> $ c89 -DFRED='//usr\local\fred' -E a.c
> #line 1 "c:\\Users\\scott_n\\a.c"
> /usr/local/fred
> 
> 
> Note that when I use //usr/local/fred I get a leading "/ " on the output.
> Only //usr\local\fred  gives the proper output.
> 

You should report this in the bug tracker for MSYS.

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Earnie