Subject: RE: Need help with makefile
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <[email-masked]>
To: Paul Kinnucan <[email-masked]>, "Nascif Abousalh-Neto" <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 18:35:38 -0500

At 05:19 PM 3/4/2001, Paul Kinnucan wrote:
>At 02:17 PM 3/4/2001 -0500, Nascif Abousalh-Neto wrote: 
>
> >
> > mkdir -p is what we use at our company. 
> > Why is it not sufficient?
>
>
>
>I am using cygwin on Windows.  cygwin supports several different methods of
>specifying paths, e.g.,
>
>c:/cygwin/home/foo
>//c/cygwin/home/foo
>/cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/foo
>/home/foo      (c:/cygwin/home is mounted as /home)
>
>As it turns out, mkdir -p fails with the path spec I was using
>in my makefile, e.g.,
>
>//c/cygwin/home/foo
>
>It seems to work fine with the other versions. So...
>
>Never mind.

Yup, //<drive> is deprecated syntax, since it clashes with UNC paths.  In
general, its preferable to use POSIX paths.

Larry Hall                              [email-masked]
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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