help with windows tinbuild and symlinks

[Michael Stahl]

On 03/05/12 10:37, Noel Grandin wrote:
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> On 2012-05-02 19:54, Michael Stahl wrote:
>> so i've added a --with-solver-and-workdir-root to do that on master
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> Thanks, that's an awesome idea.
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> But now I'm getting all kinds of weird errors, see the attached log.

the gbuild ones apparently come from the path conversion stuff that is
needed on cygwin, apparently somebody broke that for the case where
$WORKDIR/$OUTDIR are not inside $SRCDIR, which used to work some time in
the past...

the attachment contains an utterly horrible workaround that you could
try out, but really why do we convert paths so much nowadays, apparently
there are 15 calls to gb_Helper_native_path scattered about, why did
this get so complicated and why isn't gb_Helper_abbreviate_dirs_native
sufficient for all cases?

Matus, is 8fd5ba3749aa740b3c060db775b42f15a5ce50a7 really necessary?
it seems to make everything more complex..

> Also, I think "make clean" will need to explicitly clean out the solver 
> and workdir options.

thanks for noticing, fixed on master