X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:30:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Why are Windows paths broken in make 3.81? In-Reply-To: <20060724182540.GA21218@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Message-ID: References: <9c2aabaf0607211629u4e29ffa1w5f09b3d8e5a923fc@mail.gmail.com> <44C1796F.50308@netacquire.com> <20060722222244.GB18054@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <44C4FF71.6050505@netacquire.com> <20060724182540.GA21218@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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, 24 Jul 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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? Absolutely. > Thanks for explaining things, mwoehlke. fodder: Why does this remind me of The Old Grey Donkey, Eeyore, stood by himself in a thistly corner of the forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things. ? :-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/