From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: gcc --print-file-name: win32 or posix?
23 Dec 1998 22:13:12 -0800
Message-ID: <19981224004901.A28746.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@cygnus.com>
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To: Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>, Mumit Khan <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu>
Cc: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 09:05:13PM -0800, Geoffrey Noer wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 04:07:07PM -0600, Mumit Khan wrote:
>> Can you tell us why it was done? I've asked this in the past, but never
>> did get an answer.
>
>Sorry, it's all my fault!  :-)
>
>I believe I made the change in gcc to make it output backslashes in
>filenames a couple of years ago (?).  This was intended to make gcc's
>output look more Win32-native.  And it did but in retrospect, it broke
>more things than it fixed so I believe we should revert the change.
>I've already done this locally and didn't see anything go wrong.
>In fact, now configure recognizes ld as GNU ld again so it seem so
>make things better if anything.  I think we should get the gcc team to
>commit the change back to forward slashes...

Does it use forward slashes when it is a mingw-gcc, too?  Or is this
only under cygwin?

cgf