[BRLTTY] Shouldn't -r be the default on Windows?

[Lee Maschmeyer]

I forget who the mingw guy is but I've never really gotten it to work 
(haven't kept after it once I got a bash prompt). Who was asking about mingw 
recently?

Samuel Thibault wrote:

>> The other thing we might change: I noticed not long ago that 
>> README.Windows
>> suggests using the --enable-relocatable-install option during 
>> ./configure.
>> I've never done this, assuming if this is the Windows convention brltty
>> would do this automatically. If I start doing it now will it mess up the
>> way the subversion brltty is built? And if it's the best idea for 
>> windows,
>> shouldn't it be the default in the first place?
>
>IIRC it poses problem with unix (and hence cygwin) systems.
>
>The mingw case is a bit tricky, because MSYS tools use paths conventions
>(/c/Programs files) which mingw programs don't understand, and then
>--prefix completely fails. Enabling relocatable install may then be
>a good idea (and it will be enabled in the binary zip that will be
>provided for 3.8 anyway).
>
>Could you double-check that --enable-relocatable-install works really
>fine under mingw?

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