Re: PGI Compiler patch for cygwin

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 02:51:07PM CET:
> According to Christopher Hulbert on 2/22/2006 5:56 AM:
> > 
> > Actually it seems the problem is that a unix-style path is passed to
> > lib as the library name. This is probably not the correct fix, but
> > what I did was add the following to the func_extract_archives function
> > between the *-darwin* and * case.
> >       *-cygwin*)
> >         my_xdir=`cygpath -m $my_xdir`
> >         my_xabs=`cygpath -m $my_xabs`
> >         func_extract_an_archive "$my_xdir" "$my_xabs"
> >         ;;
> 
> Missing some proper quoting - consider if my_xabs contained something like
> '/dir with 2  spaces/file'.  Furthermore, I don't think this should this
> be done globally for cygwin because it penalizes compilers that do
> understand POSIX paths (gcc).

Certainly all uses of `cygpath' in ltmain are best replaced with uses of
the `fix_srcfile_path' variable.  We may need more variables like that,
to indicate the necessity of fixing for
- the compiler
- the archiver
- maybe even the linker separately from the compiler (hopefully not),
- possibly the name lister (NM).

Cheers,
Ralf