Re: Path Problem When Emacs21 Built with Cygwin

[Yong LU]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:03:57PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 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.

I can't find such switch.  Maybe we should make a suggestion to cygwin's
developer?

Yong