Re: libtool hangs in func_convert_core_msys_to_w32 when cross-compiling with mingw under cygwin
Bob Friesenhahn <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 25 Jun 2021, Dietmar May wrote: > > Is this a holdover from 13 year old mingw behavior? or related somehow > to running autotools in a cmd.exe environment (like Microsoft's original > NT "posix" subsystem, a port of gnu commands to run "natively" under > cmd.exe)? Libtool was last released in 2014. Nothing has changed since then. :-) > Can libtool just ditch all of the back and forth path conversions, and > simplify all of this? I am not sure what the current situation is now but MinGW compilers/tools used to accept Windows paths only because they were native Windows programs without any "POSIXization". Cygwin is a Unix emulation environment so it uses Unix-style paths. In the past, MinGW users often used MSYS. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn [email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ Public Key, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/public-key.txt