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Edward Lam wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>
>>> 2. Use 'cygpath' to convert from DOS to Cygwin path forms and back as
>>> needed. This can get tricky/cumbersome in some cases.
>>
>> It can be a lot easier if you have a Makefile-based build system, where
>> you can do the conversion on things that you know need converting like
>> $(SRC) and $(OBJS) and $(INCLUDEPATH) but not things like $(CFLAGS),
>> rather than if you try and write shell scripts to wrap the compiler and
>> parse the options. That can also be a good approach, but more work to get
>> it completely right.
>
> In my experience, adding cygcheck does slow down a large build system
> *significantly* when adding cygpath's though.
Makefile variable caching can be done(*). And make very sure you use ":="
not "=" when assigning a variable that might contain a $(shell)! There's
still bound to be some overhead, but you can do a lot to optimise it away.
cheers,
DaveK
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