[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Quoting Waldek Hebisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | | > Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | >> Waldek Hebisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | >> | >> | Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | >> | | >> | > A while ago, I added support for relative paths -- that was a | >> | > necessary step to make axiom.build-improvements buildable on Windows. | >> | | >> | Why do you want relative paths on Windows? AFAICS relative paths | >> | cause a lot of trouble and the simplest way to handle them is | >> | converting to absolute path as soon as possible. | >> | >> I beg to disagree. | >> | > | > Could you elaborate: you say that relative paths are needed on | > Windows but you did not say why? | | try to build Axiom out of source under MingW. | | It gave me lots headache, only to discover later that the absolute | path seen by configure is not the one other tools were expecting. | A workaround was to use "pwd -W" -- only under mingw, because -W | is a non-standard option, only to get into another whoop.
Oh, yeah, one more thing: mingw uses windows native tools, in particular options start with forward slash. I don't remember the exact details, but at some point some of the absolute paths (using Unix-style notation) started being interpreted as options; it isn't funny. -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
