X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:25:40 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Why are Windows paths broken in make 3.81? Message-ID: <20060724182540.GA21218@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <9c2aabaf0607211629u4e29ffa1w5f09b3d8e5a923fc@mail.gmail.com> <44C1796F.50308@netacquire.com> <20060722222244.GB18054@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <44C4FF71.6050505@netacquire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 01:01:55PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: >Joachim Achtzehnter wrote: >>Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 06:03:43PM -0700, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote: >>My second post was specifically in response to the claim by mwoehlke >>suggesting that the changes were "not an inconvenience". In this post >>all the issues I mentioned were intended as illustrations of such >>inconveniences, so there was even less implied expectation of somebody >>acting on these. Note, that I wrote that I had already addressed the >>issues caused by deliberate incompatibilities, all I intended to do was >>point out that it *had been* inconvenient. > >For the record, I was just trying to point out that the general >consensus around here seems to be 'don't use DOS paths in Cygwin', and >was using that to explain what I feel to be one major reason for the >change. I accept and acknowledge that this change may be inconvenient >for some people, but it is also my opinion that if you are affected by >it, you are doing something that was never condoned or officially >supported in the first place. (And, after all, WJM. ;-)) > >I am glad you got things working and (I assume, since you say things are >working) looking POSIX-like. > >Personally, every time I see mention of someone using DOS paths in >Cygwin, or a Cygwin program, I wonder to myself why this works at all :-). Could I get a gold star here? Thanks for explaining things, mwoehlke. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/