From: fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: rotd09-25, cygwin beta18 11 Oct 1998 11:01:26 -0700 Message-ID: <19981011205201.01994.cygnus.gnu-win32@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <006301bdf4f8$f5dcd8c0$c0c0c0c0@ddwhomepc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Dominique de Waleffe Cc: rpa@miscrit.be, Cygnus GNU-win32 mailing list On 11-Oct-1998, Dominique de Waleffe wrote: > [...] I did an install with a --prefix=//h/m on my home pc. > > I then tried to compile an example using the odbc package. > It could not find the mercury_imp.h file even though gcc > received -I//h/m/lib/mercury/inc as argument.... > > The file was at its expected place. when I mounted h:/m as /mercury > and temporarily patched the mgnuc script, I was able to compile the > file. Could it be that b18 gcc does not fully handle the //drive/dir > notation? Yes, I believe that gcc assumes Unix file naming semantics, where `//' is the same as `/'. Could anyone on the gnu-win32 mailing list confirm that this is the case? Also, does anyone know if this is fixed in b19, or whether it will be fixed in b20? -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".