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On 6/19/2013 07:31, Charles Wilson wrote:
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> http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Posix_path_conversion

That's good info.

I'm glad to see that relative paths are never molested.  I tried for a 
while to confuse Cygwin and native Windows programs using relative 
paths, and failed to find a case where the path doesn't mean the same 
thing to both sides.

> Not all packages are cross-compiler-compatible.

Is that another way of saying that not all packages use autotools? :)

You're not talking about anything different than the sort of thing 
Cygwin package maintainers go through, sometimes needing to arm-twist 
odd build systems to behave according to cygport's expectations?

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