MSYS mode (continue)

[Earnie Boyd]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 7:00 AM, LRN wrote:
>> - make w/ DOS path handling
> Yes. Note that the code DOES exist in make, but is disabled when make is
> built for Cygwin. One might question whether it was a good idea to
> disable support for W32 paths in make that runs on W32 (with a
> compatibility layer, but still...) in the first place.
>

MSYS has never modified the make source and it uses the CYGWIN coding.
 The only thing is we do accept windows pathing in the form of
C:/SOME/DIR but not C:\SOME\DIR.

The only thing I know that is currently changed is bash to add a -W
option to pwd.  That should be carried forward to /bin/pwd but that
currently isn't the case.

All of the path handling magic happens in msys-1.0.dll.  The other
thing that happens are chosen sane defaults for the options provided
by CYGWIN so that users reporting errors wouldn't have the chance to
screw with a known set of configuration and the CYGWIN variable is
thus ignored.  And all file handles are set to _O_BINARY without the
ability to change it; I don't know if that matters for the current
version of Cygwin but mentioning it just in case.

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