Re: [Mingw-users] Compiling issues with MSYS/MinGW

[Keith MARSHALL]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> the code
> expanded from the Autoconf macros AC_CACHE_SAVE/_AC_CACHE_DUMP
> (which may be executed as part of the exit trap in the configure
> script) looks like it triggers MinGW's automatic path conversion
> (which in turn leads to some missing backslashes, and some added
> path prefixes):

I'm not convinced that this assumption is correct; if it were, then
I would expect to see infiltrating paths in native Woe32 syntax, i.e.
with a leading `?:' drive identifier.  These...

>>>> >sed: 1: "s/^/([a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9...": bad flag in substitute 
command: 
>>>> >sed: 1: "/dev/fs/C/msys/1.0/^[_ab...": invalid command code f

do not look typical of MSYS translated path strings.

Regards,
Keith.