#656 current working directory should be unix style path

[Johan Boulé]

When the eclipse IDE invokes the make command (the one
of msys), it sets the current directory with a
microsoft-style path (i.e. x:\dir\subdir). This happend
to confuse the build process with autotools
(autoconf/automake/libtools).
I'm using a make wrapper script as work around:

cd $(pwd) && make $*

The 'cd $(pwd)' converts the microsoft-style path to a
unix-style one (i.e. /x/dir/subdir), and the build
works fine.

Curiously, the bug doesn't appear with the c++builderX
IDE, which might change the current directory using the
make --directory option.. i don't know.

The problem might be fixed at several places, but i
think it would be best if all msys executables would
"unixify" their current working directory when starting up.

[Earnie Boyd]

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MSYS is supposed to translate the paths from POSIX to Win32
format when spawning non MSYS executables. If it didn't
then native programs would not work.

Earnie