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On 07/21/2006, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote:
> I just had to deal with such a messy system and the new Cygwin make doesn't 
> work. Even though this collection of makefiles was initially written on a 
> POSIX system it still got into trouble with DOS paths because some of the 
> tools it calls to generate makefiles return platform-specific paths. So 
> this works fine on a POSIX system, worked fine on Win2000 with the old 
> make, but now I had to understand complicated sed programs to add extra 
> platform-specific sed transformations to convert paths returned by other 
> cross-platform tools to something the new make accepts.
> 


Did you think about using 'cygpath' on the result instead of adding extra
platform specific transformations to your complicated sed programs?



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