Re: [Mingw-users] Make cd troubles

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

Gisle Vanem wrote:
> "Earnie Boyd" <ear...@ya...> said:
> 
> 
>>Actually it's your use of g:/MinGW.  Use /g/MinGW instead.
> 
> 
> Okay thank, that seems to work, but yikes! 
> 
> I know ':' is used as PATH separator under Unix, but is the
> use of drive-letters so much to ask for in program that's 
> supposed to be a port to Windows? That "/g/" syntax is horrid 
> (only beaten by the "/cygdrive" syntax).
> 

See the /etc/fstab and /doc/msys/* for possible solutions.  If you wish 
to use the g:/ syntax then you need to use ``make --win32'' but I would 
caution you in doing that as there may other difficulties to work 
around.  Typically you can use /mingw to reference g:/mingw if you have 
mapped it in the /etc/fstab file.

The sh binary does understand the g:/mingw syntax, it is make that is 
not doing what you wish based on the rules for : in a make file that 
have nothing at all to do with PATH.

Earnie.