X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:19:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: mwoehlke cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <6.2.3.4.2.20060815151104.0b40e260@pop.nycap.rr.com> <01b901c6c116$21259430$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <6.2.3.4.2.20060816091525.0ab90af0@pop.nycap.rr.com> <20060816144110.GX20467@calimero.vinschen.de> <6.2.3.4.2.20060816111421.0b446b60@pop.nycap.rr.com> <20060816155054.GY20467@calimero.vinschen.de> <6.2.3.4.2.20060816144036.09695af0@pop.nycap.rr.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, 16 Aug 2006, mwoehlke wrote: > Igor Peshansky wrote: > > Alternatively, you can try to implement a $(cygpath ...) function in make > > and submit *that* to the upstream maintainers. That way, the Cygwin make > > will not have to invoke a separate process to convert the paths that it > > (as a program linked to cygwin1.dll) already knows how to do. > > I'd like to point out that such a patch would be all of about five lines > of "code"... (And for the record, I've written both new make functions > AND my own version of cygpath, so I know what I'm talking about.) Properly written, perhaps about 10. But what's a constant factor between friends? ;-) > Except note you would almost certainly want $(cygpathu) and $(cygpathw). Umm, actually I was thinking of $(cygpath) with 2 parameters -- the type of conversion, and the list of paths. > Because no one seems to have gotten the point yet, > http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI ...and that somebody is not likely to > be one of the people not having problems, so if all these other posters > would kindly put their patches where their mouths are, then maybe > something would be accomplished. And those patches should certainly go to the GNU make mailing list for the upstream maintainers to review. 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/