From: jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter) Subject: Re: include paths 28 Feb 1997 21:46:51 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <33179BD7.4443.cygnus.gnu-win32@netcom.com> References: <2.2.32.19970228210226.00964208@postman.osf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (WinNT; I) Original-To: "Bruce D. McLeod" Original-CC: gnu-win32@cygnus.com, damon@osf.org Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Bruce D. McLeod wrote: > > It seems that most of the win32 stuff under bash accepts //x/ as > a drive specification, except gcc include paths. It seems that you haven't RTFM. From either http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/faq.html or http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/readme.html: Programs can't deal with // pathname scheme in arguments gcc and other tools aren't fully compatible with the current pathname scheme: it can't grok an argument of -I//d/foo which means it is vital that when attempting to self-host, that only normal paths with single slashes are used. See the FAQ section "How can I get at other disks?" for use of the mount command that lets you avoid the double /. -- - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".