bug#18955: Makefile:382: recipe for target 'src' failed

[Alexander Shukaev]

MSYS paths are not only those of the form "/c/foo".  For example:
"/home/dani/foo", "/usr/local" and, in general any UNIX-like path are
valid MSYS paths.

 These are out of the scope right now. You are actually not supposed to pass them outside MSYS2 Shells... Nevertheless, even these ones can be dealt with in future perspective.

Therefore, it is clear that supporting MSYS/Cygwin paths from the
MS-Windows port of Emacs is far more complex that simply translating
"/C" into "C:".

Absolute paths which are present everywhere in the daily workflow, not only during builds, but for instance by invoking Emacs from MSYS/Cygwin shell and passing paths to it, should definitely be supported, and it is as easy as my proposal.