Re: PGI Compiler patch for cygwin

[Eric Blake]

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According to Christopher Hulbert on 2/22/2006 5:56 AM:
> 
> Actually it seems the problem is that a unix-style path is passed to
> lib as the library name. This is probably not the correct fix, but
> what I did was add the following to the func_extract_archives function
> between the *-darwin* and * case.
>       *-cygwin*)
>         my_xdir=`cygpath -m $my_xdir`
>         my_xabs=`cygpath -m $my_xabs`
>         func_extract_an_archive "$my_xdir" "$my_xabs"
>         ;;

Missing some proper quoting - consider if my_xabs contained something like
'/dir with 2  spaces/file'.  Furthermore, I don't think this should this
be done globally for cygwin because it penalizes compilers that do
understand POSIX paths (gcc).  When using cygwin as a compilation
environment, but targetting a compiler that does not understand POSIX
paths, it is usually better to wrap the compiler inside a script that does
the command-line conversion, and use that script as the compiler.  So you
were correct that it is not the correct fix, but it is a good indication
of the problem that needs to be resolved.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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