X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:50:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: William Sheehan cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Why are Windows paths broken in make 3.81? In-Reply-To: <003801c6b0e9$b43616b0$280aa8c0@oius.com> Message-ID: References: <003801c6b0e9$b43616b0$280aa8c0@oius.com> 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, William Sheehan wrote: > I have been following this discussion closely, as we were also hit by > this change. However, in all the emails and the ChangeLog, I still > can't find an official reason why the change was made in the first > place. Was it for technical reasons? And if so, would the Cygwin team > accept a patch that readded win32 path support? Or was it for > idealistic reasons? > > Thanks for any replies; I am genuinely curious about the official > reason. The official reason, as stated by the maintainer, was that he was tired of maintaining an out-of-tree patch (which is also why it doesn't appear in the official upstream ChangeLog). It's not Cygwin that needs to be patched, it's make. Try making the above pitch to the make maintainers (on the GNU make list or through Savannah -- see ). If the vanilla make sources start supporting Win32 paths in Cygwin, with someone else providing and maintaining this functionality upstream, I'm sure the Cygwin make package maintainer will not go out of his way to remove this support. 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/