Re: [patch] acgeneral.m4 (dirname usage)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 06 Jul 2000 17:03:52 +0200
>
> Foreignward compatibility is indeed desired.  But are you sure we're
> losing here?  Mark, or Eli, what do you think we should do?  We're
> trying to implement dirname.  `al' is the current CVS solution.

Sorry, I don't understand the context to have an intelligent answer to
your questions.  How is this `dirname' supposed to be used in Autoconf
(I assume this is Autoconf we are talking about)?

In general, path names such as "//server/share/foo" are not really
relevant to DJGPP, since DJGPP doesn't support them.  It just passes
them to the OS and lets the OS do its thing.

As an aside note, I think that treating //foo/bar as a UNC is a
mistake, precisely due to ports of Unix utilities which usually
collapse multiple slashes.  The UNC on DOS/Windows is \\foo\bar, not
//foo/bar.

However, perhaps in this case, the problem does not happen.  If I only
understood the problem, I could try to think about it...