RE: [PATCH 2/2] Do not use DOS paths on Cygwin

[Pavel Fedin]

 Hello!

> This is what I'd expect.

 Good then.

> > 2. PATH_SEPARATOR on Cygwin is ':' and on pure DOS/Windows is ';'.
> 
> This is true, but how is this relevant to the issue at hand?
> 'abspath' does not deal with PATH-style directory lists, it accepts a
> single file name as its argument.  What am I missing here?

 To the issue - no, this really doesn't relate. But this is still involved
in the change, because path list is one more thing which depends on native
path style of underlying environment.

> It probably would, if you do a clean job, but frankly I'm not sure it's
> worth your while.  It is so easy to glean this information by just
> looking at the appropriate preprocessor macro, like WINDOWS32 etc. that
> a configure-time test sounds like overkill.

 Yes, but there can be one thing, considering MinGW. If you don't know,
MinGW actually consists of two environments: MinGW by itself and MSYS. MinGW
by itself is a pure Windows environment. MSYS is enlightened version of
Cygwin whose purpose is "to provide enough compatibility to run UNIX shell
scripts like configure". MinGW land uses DOS-style paths and MSYS land uses
UNIX-style ones. Consequently, they actually build two versions of make. One
version is called 'mingw-make' and is a pure Windows program. Another
version is called 'make' and operates in MSYS land, dealing with UNIX-style
paths and path lists. They do this because majority of build systems use
POSIX semantics. Both versions are built from the same source.
 Consequently, there should be a possibility to override "native path
format" test, similar to what Cygwin currently does to disable DOS paths.
This can be needed for building MSYS version.

 Ok, good, currently i already have an implementation which works fine on
Cygwin and passes all test suite. Now i want to try to build pure Windows
version and make sure that it at least doesn't become worse. I need some
time to test it and to approve the patch for submission here at Samsung.

Kind regards,
Pavel Fedin
Expert Engineer
Samsung Electronics Research center Russia