Re: A few Windows build fixes

[Jan Djärv]

Eli Zaretskii skrev 2011-08-29 18:08:
> > From: Stefan Monnier<address@hidden>
> > Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:48:32 -0400
> > Cc: address@hidden
> >
> > > CURDIR-based paths are passed to native Emacs for load path
> > > purposes and if they have /cygdrive/ stuff in them, Emacs doesn't
> > > understand that.
> >
> > There's a general need for Emacs to understand/accept /cygdrive/foo
> > names passed on the command-line, so that could be fixed in
> > lisp/startup.el and lisp/w32*.el.
>
> That would fix the invocations of Emacs, but I suspect there are also
> invocations of other programs, like addpm and etags, which will suffer
> from the same problem and cannot be fixed like that without
> non-trivial source-level changes.  Also, there's a problem when the
> same CURDIR-based file name is passed to `cp' or `rm', which are
> Cygwin programs and therefore need the original /cygdrive/x/foo file
> name, and also to a non-Cygwin program like addpm.  It's a mess...

Cygwin programs do understand that x:/foo is the same as /cygdrive/x/foo.
Programs output a warning the first time, but you can disable the warning.

        Jan D.