Re: Make package fixes (fwd)

[Adam Fedor]

BALATON Zoltan wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Nicola Pero wrote:
>
> > about cygpath, I'm not the author of that code, but I think the idea is
> > that you might want to install cygpath.exe, then remove it later on and
> > have it silently and automatically replaced by gnustep-make's cygpath.sh
> > ... not sure but I suppose if the code to detect cygpath is in GNUstep.sh
> > and not in configure.in it's because you want it to be able to detect the
> > available one at runtime.  (maybe instead you're right).
>
> I don't know Windows and Cygwin/Mingw, but I thought one does not want to
> install and remove cygpath.exe. Maybe the original author should clarify
> this. Anyway, I think the code that searches for cygpath.exe in the path
> should not belong to GNUstep.sh, since looking through the whole path can
> take some time and this script is run every time I log in.


This was for cross-compiling from platform X to MinGW, where you 
wouldn't expect platform X to have cygpath.exe, so it uses cygpath.sh 
instead.




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