Re: Path Problem When Emacs21 Built with Cygwin

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 18:04:47 +0800
> From: Yong LU <lyongu@ailab.pku.edu.cn>
> 
> I should have made it clearer.  I have fixed the path name by hand
> and what you see here is the result after the fix.  The original 
> command issued by make is something like this:
> "./../src/oo-spd/i386/emacs.exe" -batch --no-init-file --no-site-file 
> --multibyte 
>     -l /cygdrive/u/lyongu/emacs21/emacs-21.1.50/lisp/international/titdic-cnv 
> \
>     --eval '(batch-titdic-convert t)' \
>     -dir quail ./CXTERM-DIC
> 
> And emacs complains about not finding "/cygdrive/u/lyongu/...".

I see.

Does the Make port you used have some switch or any other way to make
it convert /cygdrive/x strings to the native Windows file-name format?
If not, I don't see how this can be solved without resorting to
tricks such as what David suggested.  However, such tricks is not
something I'd gladly tell users to do.