Re: [RFA] Find init.tcl on cygwin

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 12:39:46AM -0800, Mo DeJong wrote:
>On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 02:04:16 -0500
>Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> This has been sitting in my sandbox for a long time.
>> 
>> Ok to check in?
>> 
>> cgf
>...
>>      /* CYGNUS LOCAL */
>> -    sprintf(installLib, "share/tcl%s", TCL_VERSION);
>> +    sprintf(installLib, "usr/share/tcl%s", TCL_VERSION);
>>      /* END CYGNUS LOCAL */
>
>
>What are the configure flags that you are building with under Cygwin?
>Is it something like `.../configure --prefix=/ --datadir=/usr` ?

I had hoped not to have to go into a lot of details about how cygwin
works but, no, that's not how I am configuring it.  It wouldn't matter
if I was.

/usr/bin == /bin == x:\cygwin\bin

tcl apparently converts the cygwin path into a windows path and then looks
for x:\cygwin\share which doesn't exit.  x:\cygwin\usr\share does exist.

There was a similar change in tcl 8.0 which was apparently dropped when
you did the merge from 8.0 -> 8.3.

cgf