Thanks to some help, we now have a line on why AbiWord does not build under
CYGWIN 1.1.0.  Apparently, pwd in Cygwin 1.1.0 returns

/cygdrive/c/path/to/source

whereas old versions of Cygnus reported

c:/path/to/source

In the makefiles, we set $ABI_ROOT to 'pwd'.  This if fine from Cygwin's
point of view, but no Windows applications, particularly cl, the actualy
Visual C executable can use it.  

So the question is, does anybody know of a way to fix this?  The only idea
I had was to change every assignment of $ABI_ROOT and pipe it through sed
to strip out the /cygdrive part, but that just seems WAY to silly.  

Robert Sievers
Open Source Evangelist



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