BALATON Zoltan wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Nicola Pero wrote: > >>about cygpath, I'm not the author of that code, but I think the idea is >>that you might want to install cygpath.exe, then remove it later on and >>have it silently and automatically replaced by gnustep-make's cygpath.sh >>... not sure but I suppose if the code to detect cygpath is in GNUstep.sh >>and not in configure.in it's because you want it to be able to detect the >>available one at runtime. (maybe instead you're right). >> > > I don't know Windows and Cygwin/Mingw, but I thought one does not want to > install and remove cygpath.exe. Maybe the original author should clarify > this. Anyway, I think the code that searches for cygpath.exe in the path > should not belong to GNUstep.sh, since looking through the whole path can > take some time and this script is run every time I log in.
This was for cross-compiling from platform X to MinGW, where you wouldn't expect platform X to have cygpath.exe, so it uses cygpath.sh instead. -- Adam Fedor, Digital Optics | I'm glad I hate spinach, because http://www.doc.com | if I didn't, I'd eat it, and you http://www.gnustep.org | know how I hate the stuff. _______________________________________________ Bug-gnustep mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnustep
