Re: Windows patches for the next release

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 01:23:15 -0400
> From: Christopher Faylor <address@hidden>
> 
> >@@ -2001,13 +2005,17 @@ abspath (const char *name, char *apath)
> >     }
> >   else
> >     {
> >+#ifdef __CYGWIN__
> >+      if (STOP_SET (name[0], MAP_PATHSEP))
> >+    root_len = 1;
> >+#endif
> 
> I've eyeballed the patch even though I won't be releasing a version of
> make which has this turned on.
> 
> I think the above unnecessary if HAVE_DOS_PATHS is true and should be
> 
> #if defined(__CYGWIN__) && defined(HAVE_DOS_PATHS)

You are right, I pushed a fix.

> I'm not sure it's correct to consider \a to be an absolute path in the
> same way that /a is since they mean different things to Cygwin but I
> guess that's not something that I have to worry about.

I thought about that as well.  I actually think that Cygwin should not
consider a backslash as a directory separator, even if HAVE_DOS_PATHS
is defined.  What do you think?

Anyway, such a change modifies behavior (under HAVE_DOS_PATHS), and
its prerequisite is to use STOP_SET everywhere in Make.  So I think I
will make that change after the release (unless you, or someone else
object).

Thanks.