From: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:35:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] Windows: Add workaround for MSYS' path conversion
Message-ID: <200808172235.48321.johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
In-Reply-To: <1218977083-14526-2-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de>

On Sonntag, 17. August 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
> MSYS' automatic path conversion causes problems when passing paths as '-D'
> arguments to the compiler.  MSYS tries to be smart and converts absolute
> paths to native Windows paths.  But we want the paths as we compute them in
> the Makefile.

Huh? Doesn't the Makefile compute paths like "/c/path/to/git"? We certainly 
don't want to compile such paths into git that in Windows speak actually 
mean "c:/path/to/git" - git is not an MSYS program and wouldn't understand 
the former. Which form of conversion are you refering to?

-- Hannes