From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: GCC 2.952 Cross-Compile
Date: 3 Apr 2000 14:06:25 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:

: On 28 Mar 2000, Martin Stromberg wrote:

: > : make.exe[4]: Entering directory `c:/gnu/gcc-2.952/build.tx/gcc'
: > : /dev/c/gnu/gcc-2.952/build.tx/gcc/xgcc 
: [snip]
: > : Any ideas?
: > 
: > Yeah! Move the cross-compiler(?) to a directory other than
: > "/dev". "/dev" will not work with DJGPP.

: In this case, /dev is actually going to work: "/dev/c/foo" is
: converted by the DJGPP library to "c:/foo".

: This is one of the reasons /dev is treated specially.  In this case,
: the intent is to let DOS-style file names with drive letters look like
: Unix-style file names which begin with a slash.  This makes many shell
: scripts happily ignorant about the drive letter braindamage.

Umm... Right! I forgot the nice new feature. Sorry!


Right,

							MartinS