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Subject:	Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
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On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 05:50:00PM -0400, William A. Hoffman wrote:
>At 05:31 PM 8/14/2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 05:15:50PM -0400, Harig, Mark wrote:
>>> 
>>That isn't going to help with programs like cl which take MS-DOS command
>>line arguments, nor, is my oft-suggested but consistently ignored perl
>>script for converting a makefile from MS-DOS to cygwin paths.
>
>True, and as an example of a high profile project that was hit by this,
>I found FireFox, has not quite figured out what to do about the change.

If I am somehow conveying the impression that there is some threshold of
affected users which will cause me to spend my own time trying to modify
make, let me make it clear - that is not the case.

I just don't care about MS-DOS paths.  Sorry.

cgf

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