bootstrap broken on mingw

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> So, here's another alternative: fix the MinGW issue only, while not
> regressing on any of the other reported bug (famous last words):
> One way for path translation on MinGW would be to use
>   CMD //c echo "@set srcdir" "$(abs_srcdir)"

If the abs_srcdir value is not usable by the host tools on some platform, 
shouldn't that be fixed in the code setting abs_srcdir, and not for an 
individual use of abs_srcdir?  Or is it not feasible to fix the abs_srcdir 
setting without changing Autoconf itself?

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com