* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 10:03:27PM CET: > On Thursday 04 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 04:24:51PM CET: > > > Shouldn't we use `...@path_separator@' here instead of `:', for better > > > portability to windows? > > > > The last time this was proposed somebody remarked that it may not be > > best design to make semantics dependent on which shell is used (e.g., > > using MinGW once with MSYS and the other time with COMMAND.COM means > > differing separators). > Why? Shouldn't the shell always use `;' as PATH-seperator on Windows? > Using `:' seems like a mistake, since if prevents adding directories with > absolute paths like `C:\foo' to PATH.
MSYS maps things like /c/foo to C:/foo (or C:\foo or so) for non-MSYS-native tools. It's actually the runtime that does this, and the rules are a bit subtle, requiring the user to sometimes pass arguments like /h as //h so they are not mangled. See the MinGW/MSYS wiki and documentation. Cheers, Ralf
