Subject: Re: Problems with make install of tiff libs
From: Dmitry Yaitskov <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: 11 May 2000 10:06:34 -0400

"Michael Ring" <[email-masked]> wrote:

> The problem is, that double slashes at the beginning of a pathname are
> interpreted as the access to an nt-drive.
> 
> //c/ means look at c:\ of my installation.
> 
> Paths like 
> ///usr 
> 
> are misinterpreted by cygwin which ends in the no such device or address
> error-message.
> 
> The solution is quite simple for libtiff:
> 
> use: 
> 
> make ROOT=/. install
> 
> now ///usr is converted to /.///usr which can be interpreted by cygwin.

Many thanks Michael, it works now. I knew about the //c/ being c:\,
but didn't know multiple slashes were allowed in UN*X pathes.

-- 
Cheers,
-Dima.

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