X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:29:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com cc: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81 In-Reply-To: <20060817142510.GH20467@calimero.vinschen.de> Message-ID: References: <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> <20060817142510.GH20467@calimero.vinschen.de> 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 Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 17 09:59, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > Actually, as Gareth mentioned, *Cygwin* allows colons in file names on > > managed mounts. So, at the very least there'd be confusion of whether > > c:\\TEMP is a directory TEMP in the root of the C: drive, or a file named > > 'c:\\TEMP' in the current directory on a managed mount... > > Since colons are perfectly valid characters on POSIX file systems, > there's no reason to generate a special case for Cygwin. The problems > generated by using such filenames are identical on all these OSes. I was simply pointing out that in case of Cygwin, if the build happens to run on a managed mount (which emulates a true POSIX file system), having DOS paths in the Makefile is ambiguous anyway. This is in addition to any (non-)problems introduced by colons and backslashes. 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/