Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:

> > I can't think of any examples, though.
>
> The only examples I can think of is passing \b and \n to programs like
> `echo' or `printf'.  Even then, I'm not sure I can come up with a
> specific case where the current code would cause a failure.
>
> So, Chris, are you okay with leaving this behavior in the Cygwin
> build, or do you wish to opt for a safer /-only support for drive
> letters?  We need to make a decision, and I'd rather have yours than
> decide on my own.  (I didn't see any discussion of this on the Cygwin
> list, either.)

For MPOV I would consider C:/absolute/path to be supported in all 
cases.  However if SHELL != 'sh' then C:\absolute\path should be 
supported and \ loses its meaning as an escape character.  FWIW, MPOV 
is based on experience with others having issues with Makefiles and 
MSYS.

Earnie Boyd

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