Update of sr #110901 (group libtool):

                  Status:                    Done => In Progress
             Open/Closed:                  Closed => Open

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Follow-up Comment #12:

[comment #10 comment #10:]
> Looks like MSys is still in (very inactive) use.
> The project page has two years old activity.
Could you link the project page here? 

> I wouldn't drop support for now, as it is easy to check for 'cygpath'
> availability and use it, if it is present.
I will work on a patch for this or something similar.

> Not directly related: libtool could be inspected for other path conversions
> as cygpath is much faster than conversion via cmd.
I agree that this would be good to look at improving. I am not sure if I could
complete this before the next release, but I will look into it.


[comment #11 comment #11:]
> I would still highly recommend adding a bypass ENV var as its fairly
> straightforward to just use posix style compat windows paths. Giving the user
> (or software) the ability to turn it off would seem beneficial.   
This sounds fine to me. Could you write a patch for this, or specify the ENV
variable and parts of path conversion that you would like bypassed?

> Libtool is quite slow on windows in many cases. A large part of this on
> windows due to all the process spawning.   While I don't mind manually
> modifying the libtool script to strip this function out of automated builds
> there is a bit of a dance to make sure it doesn't get restored over.
Testing on windows for libtool is quite slow, but hopefully I can improve that
soon.


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