On Fri, 25 Jun 2021, Dietmar May wrote:
Is this a holdover from 13 year old mingw behavior? or related somehow to running autotools in a cmd.exe environment (like Microsoft's original NT "posix" subsystem, a port of gnu commands to run "natively" under cmd.exe)?
Libtool was last released in 2014. Nothing has changed since then. :-)
Can libtool just ditch all of the back and forth path conversions, and simplify all of this?
I am not sure what the current situation is now but MinGW compilers/tools used to accept Windows paths only because they were native Windows programs without any "POSIXization".
Cygwin is a Unix emulation environment so it uses Unix-style paths. In the past, MinGW users often used MSYS. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ Public Key, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/public-key.txt
