> From: Ralf Angeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 10:41:33 +0200 > > > Good God! Can you please explain why we need such a monstrosity with > > MSYS, and why the original version fails (i.e., why is the file name > > mangled)? > > I don't know exactly. I suspect that the MSYS shell regards the colon > as a path separator and tries to replace it by a semi-colon and a path > prefix. In order to find out I asked on the MSYS mailing list about > it but haven't got an answer about this specific issue yet. You can > find the thread at > <URL:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.msys/2715>.
Thanks. > > Btw, isn't MinGW 4.1.0 a development snapshot, not a released version? > > If so, perhaps it's a bug in that version of MinGW (I have 3.7 on my > > box). > > On MinGW's download page 4.1.0 is listed under "Current". It's strange: MinGW-4.1.0.exe is under "Current", but MinGW Runtime is still at version 3.7. What is inside MinGW-X.Y.Z.exe---isn't it the runtime plus the compiler and Binutils? _______________________________________________ Emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
