[CMake] Cmake 2.8.2 Bug under windows

[J Decker]

But actually it needs to not prepend anything if it starts with a
slash, otherwise you couldn't build from a network share by name....

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:25 PM, J Decker <d3ck0r at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
>> On 08/13/2010 02:45 PM, J Decker wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>> On 8/12/2010 8:36 PM, J Decker wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" /test
>>>>
>>>> The path "/test" is not a valid full path on windows.
>>>
>>> yes it is.  and the forward slash or backslash is handled perfectly by
>>> all windows internals - it's only windows command prompt that had an
>>> issue cause it uses '/' as an option identifier.  The system itself
>>> allows // or \\ or / or \ anywhere / or \ appear.
>>
>> Sure.
>>
>>> Not specifying the drive is also valid - it means use the current drive.
>>
>> Yes, so the code I mentioned needs to be taught to add the drive letter.
>
> Not really - it can be aware that it starts with a / and don't add
> anything (including <whatever/build>) but whatever, I often added the
> drive letter so I could check if it starts with some single letter
> followed by a colon...
>
>>
>> -Brad
>>
>