Boris Kolpackov wrote:
Hi David,
David Bertoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I was just building the 3.0 beta on Cygwin, and noticed that configure
chooses the Windows file manager instead of the Posix one. I think this
is wrong, because it means you cannot use Cygwin/Unix-style paths.
Agree. We should prefer the Posix manager by default.
Also, it looks like with the Posix manager on Cygwin, you cannot specify
Windows-style paths like you could with the old file manager.
I think this is fine. Cygwin's goal is to present Windows as UNIX-like
with UNIX-style filesystem. I then don't see why software that is built
for Cygwin should worry about Windows-style paths. AFAIK, most of the
software for Cygwin only supports UNIX-style paths.
Actually, most of the Cygwin utilities I've used support both styles,
including the form "c:/foo/bar.txt." In fact, there is the cygpath utility
that converts from one to another.
In case of Xerces-C++, anybody wanting Windows-style path support
should instead use either MSVC or Mingw.
Perhaps we need a specialized Cygwin file manager?
No, I don't think we should have one.
Then we'ed better document this change in behavior from the 2.x releases.
Dave
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