Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 12:39:58 +0300 From: Paul Sokolovsky X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.32) S/N A9B97A11 Reply-To: Paul Sokolovsky X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <13527.000511@is.lg.ua> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re[2]: Problems with make install of tiff libs In-reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Michael, Thursday, May 11, 2000, 10:44:23 AM, you wrote: MR> The problem is, that double slashes at the beginning of a pathname are MR> interpreted as the access to an nt-drive. MR> //c/ means look at c:\ of my installation. MR> Paths like MR> ///usr MR> are misinterpreted by cygwin which ends in the no such device or address MR> error-message. Btw, susv2 has following about it: it is implementation dependent how path beginning with *two* slashes treated. All other numbers should be collapsed into single. Best regards, Paul mailto:paul-ml@is.lg.ua -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com