help with windows tinbuild and symlinks

[Matúš Kukan]

On 3 May 2012 13:30, Michael Stahl <mstahl at redhat.com> wrote:

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

It is if you want to build inside /home/

+# Convert path to native notation
+# First convert to unix style to avoid problems when
+# $(SRCDIR) is substring of $(gb_Helper_SRCDIR_NATIVE)
+# and $(1) already contains $(gb_Helper_SRCDIR_NATIVE)
tries to explain that.

See also http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Build-Failure-on-Cygwin-Windows-td3904576.html#a3907631

Best,
Matus