On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Peter Ekberg wrote:

Yes, I came across that one, but it seemed heavy handed for the
job at hand. I think my approach is neater, but I'm biased :-)
In what way is your script better than my version that simply
uses the cmd script from MSYS?

I am not sure that my script is "better". It just happens to work identically across MSYS and Cygwin without using tools peculiar to either environment. All it needs is 'mount' and 'sed'.

Neither approach has a chance to work in a cross compile setup,
which was the objection to my approach...

Quite true.  Cross compile needs special care.

It is quite rare for Windows executables to include hard-coded paths. This is much more common for Unix. So Unix software which is quickly ported to Windows may need to include some hard-coded paths. Windows software doesn't have any notion of an installation "prefix" except for at software install time.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/


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