Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 09:40:52 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Martin Stromberg <eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>
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Subject: Re: GCC 2.952 Cross-Compile
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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.