From: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: rotd09-25, cygwin beta18
11 Oct 1998 11:01:26 -0700
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To: Dominique de Waleffe <ddw AT acm DOT org>
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On 11-Oct-1998, Dominique de Waleffe <ddw AT acm DOT org> 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?

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