On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:04 PM, John E. / TDM wrote:
> On 6/6/2012 7:18 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:21 PM, John E. / TDM wrote:
>>> (2) MSYS' path
>>> translation can get in the way, or at least has gotten in the way for me in
>>> the past when building GCC.
>> When I was maintaining MSYS I wouldn't release it if GCC would not
>> build.  Building the GCC package was my test of sanity for MSYS.  I've
>> not tried a GCC build in a while though so I don't know the state of
>> issues with the current process.
>
> What I mean is, MSYS' path translation can prevent the build-time
> machinery from making all paths relocatable, or has in the past. The
> build is still able to complete without any patches.

I've created 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3532790&group_id=2435&atid=102435
for it.

-- 
Earnie
-- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd

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