[m-rev.] diff: clarify handling of installation paths with MSVC and MSYS

[Julien Fischer]

Branches: main, 11.07

README.MS-VisualC:
 	Clairfy the handling of installation paths with MSYS.

 	Some other minor rewording.

Julien.

Index: README.MS-VisualC
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RCS file: /home/mercury/mercury1/repository/mercury/README.MS-VisualC,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -r1.9 README.MS-VisualC
--- README.MS-VisualC	8 Nov 2011 03:11:41 -0000	1.9
+++ README.MS-VisualC	23 Nov 2011 11:40:18 -0000
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@

  The MSVC port of Mercury is compatible with the prebuilt C files contained in
  the Mercury source distribution.  The 'asm_fast' and 'reg' grades will not work
-with MSVC (see below), so when using prebuilt C files the compiler will be
+with MSVC (see below).  When using the prebuilt C files the compiler will be
  built in the 'none.gc' grade.

  Alternatively, if you have an existing Mercury installation that uses the MinGW
@@ -73,12 +73,17 @@

  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.
+path.  On MSYS, you must use a full Windows-style path with a drive letter,
+except that you must use '/' instead of `\' as a directory separator.
+For example, this is acceptable:

-Be sure to quote Windows style paths used as arguments to the configure
-script's `--prefix' option, otherwise the shell will get confused.
+    $ ./configure --prefix="c:/where/to/install/mercury"

-Once configure has run, then you should do
+whereas the following is not:
+
+    $ ./configure --prefix="c:\where\to\install\mercury"
+
+Once configure has successfully finished, then you should do

      $ make
      $ make install

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