RE: Libtool stresstest.at segfault on Cygwin/MinGW

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Peter Ekberg wrote:
> I spoke too soon. I forgot that I had disabled the `pwd`/ part
> of the rel loop. That still fails since MSYS does not convert
> a -Wl,--out-implib,/c/absolute/path argument to
> -Wl,--out-implib,C:/absolute/path
>
> But that is a MinGW bug in my book. Why would ld not like a unix
> style path? But then again, I'm not on bleeding edge MinGW here.

MinGW is a native *Windows* application.  As such, it depends on other 
applications to translate Unix style paths to Windows paths.  It does 
not know anything about Unix.  When using the MSYS shell, MSYS 
performs that task.  MSYS does its best but apparently it does not 
manage to detect all path arguments (difficult job) and translate 
them.

Note that the Cygwin GCC is a Cygwin application so using the Cygwin 
GCC in "MinGW" mode is not entirely the same.

Bob
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