[Mingw-msys] Re: MSYS and Win98 Woes

[Ranjit M. <rm...@ho...>]

Luke Dunstan wrote:
> 
>> Is there something blindingly obvious that I'm missing?
>>
> 
> If Mingw is installed in c:\mingw and your current drive is C:, running 
> this program will work because "/mingw/include/stdio.h" is treated as 
> "\mingw\include\stdio.h". Try running it from a different drive and see 
> what happens. Windows 9x is probably just less tolerant regarding 
> forward slashes in paths. Does Win98 work when you try to open 
> "c:/mingw/include/stdio.h" ?

By God you're right! On my Win98 box, MinGW is installed in
"D:\MinGW" and I used to run the program from "H:\TEMP" - the
Win2K box has only a single "C:" partition. It seems so
obvious now that you've pointed it out!

On my Win2K box I renamed "c:\MinGW" to "c:\NotMinGW", updated
the MSYS fstab and shortcuts and sure enough the rogue program
doesn't work on Win2K as well - as expected! Duh!

Can you picture me sitting in a corner of the room
with the "dunce" cap on?
;-)

Thanks for your help in solving this puzzle(!).

Ranjit.

> 
>> Ranjit.
>>
>> Earnie Boyd wrote:
>>
>>> Ranjit Mathew wrote:
>>>
>>>> However, why does it work on Win2K then?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hmm...  I haven't a clue what the difference might be.  Are you sure you
>>> have the same MSYS version on both?  This just points to my needing to
>>> find a nice Win98 machine for testing.
>>>
>>> Earnie.
>>>
> 
> Luke Dunstan
> 
> 
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