Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, Bill Hoffman <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:56:03 -0400
> 
> Please don't dispair if I'm not as communicative as I usually am.  For
> those not aware, in the "real world" I've decided to leave my previous
> position (of 13+ years!) and take on a new challenge.  As a result,
> there is some turbulence in my life at the moment

Lots of luck in getting your life back in order!

> Is it the case that people might want to build a Cygwin version of
> make _WITHOUT_ DOS path support?

My hope is that the DOS file-name support could be made permanent
without hampering anything in the Cygwin version.  It remains to be
seen if that hope will be upheld by testing.  If it is, I think the
configure-time option will be unnecessary.