From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2004-07-13T14:08:51+09:00
Subject: Re: make install not working under msys/mingw32

nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:15:16 +0900,
> Joel VanderWerf wrote in [ruby-talk:106147]:
> 
>>Maybe the problem is the --dest-dir="" option. Why isn't configure 
>>setting that properly? (There is apparently no manual way to set dest-dir.)
> 
> 
> Due to MSYS bash's weird behavior; it changes command lines
> arbitrarily.  MSYS isn't supported, and isn't planned to get
> supported.

Oh, ok. Good to know that before going too far.

I guess it's better to use cygwin with the mingw compiler then, as Jeff 
Mitchel suggested in

http://ruby-talk.net/104086

I'll either do that or try to get msvc to do the right thing with my code...