From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2003-11-26T05:01:19+09:00
Subject: Re: command line editing in irb under MSYS

Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> 2. Do 'configure --prefix=C:/msys/1.0/local' or similar. Use windows 
> paths, rather than posix ('/usr/local'), or else the installer won't put 
> binaries in the right place, because of the rules about when MSYS 
> translates paths. (MSYS translates paths only when executing a binary in 
> the MSYS /bin or /usr/bin directories.)

I got that last bit backwards: MSYS translates paths _except_ when the 
binary is in /bin or /usr/bin.