Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 04:02:15 -0500
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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT gnu DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Bash 2.03 updated March 22nd
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   From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT usa DOT net>

   # The following is needed, to get not the // syntax, when
   # the configure script or the makefile calls pwd
   current_drive=`pwd | sed 's,//\(.\).*,\1,'`
   export SYSROOT=$current_drive:/

IMHO, that's a wrong work-around for the problem, even in theprevious
version of Bash.  The right way to do it is to say this:

	current_drive=`echo.exe $pwd` etc...

The magic use of echo.exe will cause Bash to convert the //c/foo into
c:/foo stuff.  (I'm sorry I cannot test the above now, so you might
need to experiment a bit to get it right.)  The trick is to call some
external program, so that Bash knows it has to convert the //c/foo
format.  This should work in Bash 2.03 as well, even if it doesn't
convert //c/foo pathnames when invoking programs.