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Re: [Axiom-developer] HyperDoc
From: |
Gabriel Dos Reis |
Subject: |
Re: [Axiom-developer] HyperDoc |
Date: |
09 Apr 2007 11:42:42 -0500 |
address@hidden writes:
| Quoting Waldek Hebisch <address@hidden>:
|
| > Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| >> Waldek Hebisch <address@hidden> writes:
| >>
| >> | Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| >> |
| >> | > A while ago, I added support for relative paths -- that was a
| >> | > necessary step to make axiom.build-improvements buildable on Windows.
| >> |
| >> | Why do you want relative paths on Windows? AFAICS relative paths
| >> | cause a lot of trouble and the simplest way to handle them is
| >> | converting to absolute path as soon as possible.
| >>
| >> I beg to disagree.
| >>
| >
| > Could you elaborate: you say that relative paths are needed on
| > Windows but you did not say why?
|
| try to build Axiom out of source under MingW.
|
| It gave me lots headache, only to discover later that the absolute
| path seen by configure is not the one other tools were expecting.
| A workaround was to use "pwd -W" -- only under mingw, because -W
| is a non-standard option, only to get into another whoop.
Oh, yeah, one more thing: mingw uses windows native tools, in
particular options start with forward slash. I don't remember the
exact details, but at some point some of the absolute paths (using
Unix-style notation) started being interpreted as options; it isn't funny.
-- Gaby
- RE: [Axiom-developer] FW: Axiom on Solaris 10.2 x86, (continued)
- RE: [Axiom-developer] FW: Axiom on Solaris 10.2 x86, Bill Page, 2007/04/09
- RE: [Axiom-developer] FW: Axiom on Solaris 10.2 x86, gdr, 2007/04/09
- Re: [Axiom-developer] FW: Axiom on Solaris 10.2 x86, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2007/04/09
- RE: [Axiom-developer] FW: Axiom on Solaris 10.2 x86, Bill Page, 2007/04/10
- Re: [Axiom-developer] FW: Axiom on Solaris 10.2 x86, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2007/04/10
- [Axiom-developer] HyperDoc, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2007/04/08
- Re: [Axiom-developer] HyperDoc, Waldek Hebisch, 2007/04/09
- Re: [Axiom-developer] HyperDoc, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2007/04/09
- Re: [Axiom-developer] HyperDoc, Waldek Hebisch, 2007/04/09
- Re: [Axiom-developer] HyperDoc, gdr, 2007/04/09
- Re: [Axiom-developer] HyperDoc,
Gabriel Dos Reis <=
- Re: [Axiom-developer] HyperDoc, Waldek Hebisch, 2007/04/09
- Relative vs. Absolute paths (was Re: [Axiom-developer] HyperDoc), C Y, 2007/04/09
- Re: Relative vs. Absolute paths (was Re: [Axiom-developer] HyperDoc), Gabriel Dos Reis, 2007/04/09
- Re: [Axiom-developer] HyperDoc, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2007/04/09
RE: [Axiom-developer] FW: Axiom on Solaris 10.2 x86, gdr, 2007/04/07