From: jazz@softway.com (Jason Zions) Subject: Re: Picking up include directories automatically 17 May 1997 01:11:58 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <337CB6C4.4B88.cygnus.gnu-win32@NoSpam.com> References: <199705152232.PAA00504@nz1.netzone.com> Reply-To: jazz@softway.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (WinNT; I) Original-To: Mikey Original-CC: cygnus Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Actually, using a doubled-slash is indeed POSIX; a leading double-slash in a pathname is explicitly called out as implementation-defined, and a portable application should (a) deal with it without blowing up, and (b) not ascribe any particular meaning to it. If anyone is interested, I can get a specific chapter-and-verse citation. The OpenNT POSIX-conforming environment for NT uses /// consistently, with very few (if any) source changes required to publicly-available code. Once the tmpdir()/tmpnam()/tempnam() functions are modified to "do the right thing", most apps simply need slight changes to environment variables or compile-time #defines to build correctly. Apache, for instance, came up quite easily under OpenNT 2.0alpha and 2.0beta. Disclosure: I work for Softway Systems, maker of OpenNT. Jason Zions http://www.softway.com (email address diddled to prevent spamming) - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".