[m-rev.] for review: documentation updates and fixes for MSVC port

[Paul Bone]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 01:57:30PM +1100, Julien Fischer wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, Paul Bone wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 10:54:50PM +1100, Julien Fischer wrote:
> >>
> >>>>Index: README.MS-VisualC
> >>>>===================================================================
> >>>>RCS file: /home/mercury/mercury1/repository/mercury/README.MS-VisualC,v
> >>>>retrieving revision 1.8
> >>>>diff -u -r1.8 README.MS-VisualC
> >>>>--- README.MS-VisualC	7 Mar 2006 06:40:39 -0000	1.8
> >>>>+++ README.MS-VisualC	7 Nov 2011 04:06:56 -0000
> >>>
> >>>>+
> >>>>+The `--with-msvcrt' flag causes executables built with this install of Mercury
> >>>>+to be linked with the MS Visual C runtime, instead of the standard libC
> >>>>+runtime.
> >>>>+
> >>>>+On Cygwin, configure and mmake will do translation of Unix style paths, so you
> >>>>+may specify the installation directory using either a Unix- or Window-style
> >>>>+path.  On MSYS, you must use a Window-style path.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>Maybe this is a dumb question from a non-windows guy.  But is the only
> >>>difference the direction of the slashes?  ie \ for windows and / for Unix?  Do
> >>>the unix style paths on a windows system include the drive letter?
> >>
> >>Both Cygwin and MSYS map the driver letter onto their view of the
> >>file systems,  For MSYS, c: is simpley /c, for Cygwin it is
> >>/cygdrive/c.
> >>
> >
> >Should this then say that a unix style path encodes the driver letter
> >in this way?
> 
> Why?  The Cygwin and MSYS documentation already describes how each of
> them handles directory path translation; the point of this README is
> not to provide an introduction to either of them.
> The point that paragraph is trying to make is simply that in Cygwin you
> can give either a Unix style or a Windows style path to Mercury's
> configure script.

Okay, I thought I'd check.

Thanks.

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