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 This means that whenever these instructions say something like ''/c/met.no'', you can //usually// substitute ''c:/met.no'' with impunity.  You can //not// substitute ''c:\met.no'', or even ''c:\\met.no'', because at some point or other it will end up in an underquoted string on a command line deep in a configure script, and the shell will strip the ''\''. This means that whenever these instructions say something like ''/c/met.no'', you can //usually// substitute ''c:/met.no'' with impunity.  You can //not// substitute ''c:\met.no'', or even ''c:\\met.no'', because at some point or other it will end up in an underquoted string on a command line deep in a configure script, and the shell will strip the ''\''.
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 +In fact, sometimes, you //must// use the Windows form instead of the MSYS form - specifically, when the path will end up in the finished product (either hardcoded into a binary, or somewhere in a compile-time-generated configuration file).
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 +I'd really like to advise you to always use the Windows form, but I won't, since I can't promise that it will always work.  What I //can// promise is that it will work for Metlibs and Diana.
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