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Re: 3.81 and windows paths

> Well, the whole point of cygwin is to give a POSIX-compatible 
> environment in win32. So it's aiming to be like linux, not windows.
> This means that if something like a makefile parses fine in linux, but 
> not in cygwin (barring linker stuff), something is wrong.

Yeah, what's wrong is that cl doesn't accept posix paths. For some
reason, they were added, we all got addicted to it, and now it's being
ripped out from underneath us. It's not a very friendly thing to do.

Bob Rossi

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