Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin

[William A. Hoffman]

At 05:35 PM 8/17/2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 05:11:19PM -0400, William A. Hoffman wrote:
>>I obviously care that the patch gets done.  What I do not care about is
>>the style of the code in make.  The issue here is should sh_chars_sh be
>>directly referenced or not.  I think it should not, Chris things it
>>should.  It really is a matter of taste, and something for a make
>>maintainer to choose.  I just don't want to react to every suggestion
>>with a new patch.
>
>Again, I don't think this is a matter of taste.  I believe that you are
>introducing a real change in behavior, i.e., the use of sh_chars_sh was
>deliberate.

You are right, it was not a style or taste issue, I was wrong.  However, if 
I think about it some more... What if you try to escape a dos shell character 
with \.  
Maybe it should look at both of them??  It is trying to distinguish between
a path separator and a \ escaped character right?   

-Bill