From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: gcc --print-file-name: win32 or posix?
23 Dec 1998 21:39:49 -0800
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To: Mumit Khan <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu>
Cc: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

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...

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Geoffrey Noer
noer AT cygnus DOT com