unable to make install under cygwin
Ralf Corsepius
corsepiu at faw.uni-ulm.de
Wed Mar 12 08:40:36 UTC 2003
Am Mit, 2003-03-12 um 09.14 schrieb Chris Johns:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
> > What kind of meaning does // have under Cygwin?
>
> The Cygwin FAQ has this:
>
> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC33
>
> So it means reference a Windows share.
Hmm, veeeery cleeeever decision ;)
IIRC, using // inside of directory names explicitly is covered and
allowed by POSIX, but I don't recall if POSIX covers leading //.
Anyway, the cause which triggered this is fixed in CVS
(cpukit/wrapup/Makefile.am)
Ralf
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