Re: [Mingw-users] Absolute file-name translation with MSYS

[John B. <joh...@ho...>]

Hello Eli,


Eli Zaretskii wrote:



>> From: Earnie
>>
>> Use --prefix=`cd /mingw && pwd -W` instead of --prefix=/mingw to get the
>> windows absolute value.
>
[snip]
>
>> The problem though still exists since on Windows the user chooses
>> where to install /mingw in the Windows path hierarchy.
>
> Sorry, I didn't understand this comment.
>

I believe that he meant that if the user has mingw in d:\mingw then your hard-coded
c:/mingw will be a syntactically correct path to the wrong folder on the
user's system.

Regards,
John Brown.