Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/1998/12/23/22:13:12
On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 09:05:13PM -0800, Geoffrey Noer wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 04:07:07PM -0600, Mumit Khan wrote:
>> Can you tell us why it was done? I've asked this in the past, but never
>> did get an answer.
>
>Sorry, it's all my fault! :-)
>
>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...
Does it use forward slashes when it is a mingw-gcc, too? Or is this
only under cygwin?
cgf
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