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Re: Static linking issue under cygwin.
Vladimir A. Petrov wrote:
>> with embedded spaces because they subject them to unquoted shell handling,
>> which treats the space as a word-separator. So, it's not "worse", but it is
>> "unusual and therefore less well tested and therefore more prone to bugs".
>
> Guys, we are talking not about good and bad paths,
Err, yes we are. You explicitly asked this question:
> By the way
> why "Program Files" directory is worse than others if it easily can be
> accessed by the fully qualified path?
so I answered it.
> but about some
> Cygwin issue that is also reproducible on the different istall with
> the different set of libraries. Take a look at my initial message at
> the end.
We already answered that in the first two posts before we even got onto this
side track.
cheers,
DaveK
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