From:	khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu (Mumit Khan)
Subject:	Re: gcc --print-file-name: win32 or posix?
24 Dec 1998 10:52:33 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.93.981224120249.23664E-100000.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@modi.xraylith.wisc.edu>
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To:	Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>
Cc:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Geoffrey Noer wrote:

> I believe I made the change in gcc to make it output backslashes in
> filenames a couple of years ago (?).  This was intended to make gcc's
> output look more Win32-native.  And it did but in retrospect, it broke
> more things than it fixed so I believe we should revert the change.
> I've already done this locally and didn't see anything go wrong.
> In fact, now configure recognizes ld as GNU ld again so it seem so
> make things better if anything.  I think we should get the gcc team to
> commit the change back to forward slashes...

Actually, the change did make sense at one point when there was talk about
using native linker etc drive by the gcc driver, but obviously that's a
foregone conclusion by now.

To play it safe, we can always use a environment variable to do the path
munging in the GET_ENV in gcc/config/i386/xm-cygwin32.h, have it off by
default.

Regards,
Mumit

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