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List:       git
Subject:    Re: [PATCH 1/7] Windows: Add workaround for MSYS' path conversion
From:       Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt () telecom ! at>
Date:       2008-08-17 20:35:48
Message-ID: 200808172235.48321.johannes.sixt () telecom ! at
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On Sonntag, 17. August 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
> MSYS' automatic path conversion causes problems when passing paths as '-D'
> arguments to the compiler.  MSYS tries to be smart and converts absolute
> paths to native Windows paths.  But we want the paths as we compute them in
> the Makefile.

Huh? Doesn't the Makefile compute paths like "/c/path/to/git"? We certainly 
don't want to compile such paths into git that in Windows speak actually 
mean "c:/path/to/git" - git is not an MSYS program and wouldn't understand 
the former. Which form of conversion are you refering to?

-- Hannes
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