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Re: UNC and POSIX paths
- From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at nexgo dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:35:35 +0200
- Subject: Re: UNC and POSIX paths
- References: <003501ce6b5f$b41f2c10$1c5d8430$%fedin at samsung dot com> <kpn4kk$p88$1 at ger dot gmane dot org> <036c01ce6b6d$0ada5090$208ef1b0$ at malth dot us> <kpnfp7$urd$1 at ger dot gmane dot org>
Andrew DeFaria writes:
> I'm trying to understand the reluctance towards "fixing the problem"
> and instead the insistence on "putting a band aid on it". So in the
> above, why would you not instead do --prefix=/usr/local?
Because some scripts try to use
$(DESTDIR)/$(PREFIX)
rather than
$(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)
or otherwise insist on adding a slash somewhere in the expansion of
directory paths without checking whether they are "" or "/". While it'd
be preferable that these expansions be fixed, simply prepending a few
more slashes usually works when the system follows POSIX rules since
only "//" is special.
Regards,
Achim.
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