[Mingw-msys] Re: Howto obtain a full Windows path from a shell command?

[Angus L. <le...@ly...>]

Keith MARSHALL wrote:
>>A further question: I have a couple of Makefile variables in that
>>snippet, $(pkgdatadir) and $(datadir) which expand to "/home/Angus/..."
>>paths.  Is there an existing utility function to convert such a path
>>to the full Windows version? If not, I'll cobble something together
>>to generate the prefix as the difference between `pwd` and `pwd -W`.
>>Something like (off the top of my head):

> I posted an autoconf macro on this list, back in July, which will do
> this; see
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=12494813

Magic! Many, many thanks!

> and earlier messages related to the same subject, in which I presented
> the same, in the form of a shell script.

> (Unfortunately, these messages aren't properly threaded -- seem's like
> Lotus Notes cannot preserve threads in list mailings, at least not the
> way our Company IT Department configure it, and they point blank refuse
> to allow me to use anything else :-( ).

You might prefer to refer to the thread using the gmane web interface then:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.msys/2779

Regards,
Angus