Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:

> > Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:49:46 -0400
> > From: Earnie Boyd <address@hidden>
> >
> > Quoting Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:
> >
> > >
> > > The Cygwin build could (and probably should) use configure.in, but the
> > > MinGW and MSVC ports don't use the configure script to build
> > > themselves, and so the native builds cannot set PATH_SEPARATOR_CHAR
> > > there.
> > >
> >
> > For MinGW, it can use configure if the MSYS shell is used.
>
> I thought you said the MSYS port is not of importance,

MSYS is a shell whose native host, build and target is for MINGW32.  An 
MSYS target isn't under discussion.

> If you do want the MSYS port to be part of the official distro,

When the time comes, MSYS will mimick what Cygwin did.

Earnie Boyd

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