From 6e4712d6ed606205f9ca4bb5aa2de8ad19c480a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Cedilnik <andy.cedilnik@kitware.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 08:18:38 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix problem on windows with network paths

---
 Source/cmSystemTools.cxx | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Source/cmSystemTools.cxx b/Source/cmSystemTools.cxx
index a081b0c62..e67708fc4 100644
--- a/Source/cmSystemTools.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmSystemTools.cxx
@@ -703,7 +703,15 @@ void cmSystemTools::ConvertToUnixSlashes(std::string& path)
     pos++;
     }
   // Remove all // from the path just like most unix shells
-  while((pos = path.find("//", 0)) != std::string::npos)
+  int start_find = 0;
+
+#ifdef _WIN32
+  // However, on windows if the first characters are both slashes,
+  // then keep them that way, so that network paths can be handled.
+  start_find = 1;
+#endif
+
+  while((pos = path.find("//", start_find)) != std::string::npos)
     {
     cmSystemTools::ReplaceString(path, "//", "/");
     }