From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: Newbie pathing question
11 Nov 1996 02:26:09 -0800
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David Relson taps on the keyboard:
> 
>     configure --srcdir=//i/H-i386-cygwin32/src/gcc --host=i386-cygwin32
> --target=i386-cygwin32 

Unforunately, // doesn't get interpreted well when it is part of an
argument to gcc.  You need to use mount so you can just use single
slashes...

Also, beta 16 cannot rebuild itself without some custom hacking.
Future betas shouldn't have this problem except maybe under Win 95.

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Geoffrey Noer
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