MSYS sh (and possibly the MSYS-* apps) do really convoluted quote,
slash and path mangling to make sh on windows feel like sh on unix.

Cheers,
Leo



2009/3/26 John Cowan <[email protected]>:
> felix winkelmann scripsit:
>
>> mingw-msys is for people who need basic GNU tools and sh (that would
>> be me, for example).
>
> I understand why people would want to use msys.  What I don't understand
> is what makes the plain mingw build so painful if you have msys too,
> such that we need a separate build for that case.
>
> --
> There are three kinds of people in the world:   John Cowan
> those who can count,                            [email protected]
> and those who can't.
>


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