Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 11:41:01PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:21:31 -0400
>> From: Christopher Faylor <address@hidden>
>> Cc: 
>> 
>> It does make me wonder what kind of quoting problems we'd see with
>> HAVE_DOS_PATHS, though.  On cygwin, I wouldn't want every backslash to
>> be interpreted as part of a path name "just in case".
>
>If we want the Cygwin port to support c:\foo\bar, there's no other way
>I know of.  If the Cygwin port should support only c:/foo/bar, then
>that particular code fragment should be ifdef'ed away for Cygwin.
>
>What is best should be decided by the Cygwin community, so you may
>wish to discuss this on the Cygwin list.  (If it matters, my advice
>would be to allow only the forward slashes for the Cygwin port, as it
>gives enough rope to get things done for minimal risk, and because
>backslashes are not 100% supported even in the native builds.)
>
>Whatever the decision, this is precisely the reason why the patch we
>eventually decide upon should be tested with as many Cygwin Makefile's
>as possible.

I guess my concern is that there will be times where a '\' will not
be interpreted as a quoting character when it really should be.

I can't think of any examples, though.

cgf