Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:

> > Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:45:59 -0400
> > From: Earnie Boyd <address@hidden>
> >
> > Quoting Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:
> >
> > >>
> > >> I'm not sure if this is what you're saying but I wouldn't mind an option
> > >> but only if (and I can't believe I'm saying this) the default is
> > >> --with-dos-paths rather than --without-dos-paths.
> > >
> > > I'm saying two things: (a) I agree that the default should be with DOS
> > > paths, and (b) we need an option to turn DOS paths off only if the
> > > default behavior causes trouble in some situations.
> > >
> >
> > I'm not sure I like a soft option but maybe DOSPATHS=false to turn it
> > off.  I would still like the above configure switches.
>
> Could you please tell why you think an option is needed?  If the
> default behavior doesn't cause any trouble, why do we need to create
> an option in advance, before we hear any user complaints?

For the Cygwin variant which isn't currently using HAVE_DOS_PATHS users 
may indeed want the option to build their version configured 
--without-dos-paths.  Why release a version of software where users 
might complain so that you can then fix it?

Earnie Boyd

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