X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:05:27 -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: <20060726162609.GA24491@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Message-ID: References: <9c2aabaf0607211629u4e29ffa1w5f09b3d8e5a923fc@mail.gmail.com> <9c2aabaf0607260912n4d17a340j533a049565234c00@mail.gmail.com> <20060726162609.GA24491@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 Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:12:51AM -0600, Michael Hirsch wrote: > >>Yes. See . > >>If you are using a POSIX-like "OS" (i.e. Cygwin), you should be using > >>POSIX paths. That's not an inconvenience, that's called writing a bad > >>makefile. If you aren't using Cygwin for the POSIX environment, you > >>should be using MinGW. > > > >I see. Unfortunately, I am trying to use cygwin to make my life > >easier on Windows, but I am still constrained to use windows programs. > >Many of them cannot use the cygwin paths, but require a path like > >"c:/my/path.exe". It will be very difficult to switch back and forth > >between path representations. I guess I do need to look into MinGW. > > Maybe someone here would be willing to post a sed transformation which > would change c:\some\dos\path to /cygdrive/c/some/dos/path. Here you go: sed -e 's/\\/\\\\/g;s/^/cygpath /;e' HTH. ;-) 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/