Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:38:51 -0400
> From: Earnie Boyd <address@hidden>
> 
> For MPOV I would consider C:/absolute/path to be supported in all 
> cases.

Excuse my ignorance, but what is MPOV?

> However if SHELL != 'sh' then C:\absolute\path should be 
> supported and \ loses its meaning as an escape character.  FWIW, MPOV 
> is based on experience with others having issues with Makefiles and 
> MSYS.

I agree with the idea, but its implementation is far from easy.
Volunteers are welcome, as always.

For now, the native Windows ports almost reach this goal, though.