X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:46:33 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81 Message-ID: <20060817144633.GF17328@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <00e701c6c207$bcf80bd0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00e701c6c207$bcf80bd0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 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, Aug 17, 2006 at 03:16:31PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >On 17 August 2006 15:13, Igor Peshansky wrote: > >> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>> >>>>> On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Alternatively, you can try to implement a $(cygpath ...) function in >>>>> make and submit *that* to the upstream maintainers. >>>> >>>> FWIW, I don't think such a function is a good idea, and if it is >>>> proposed on the Make mailing list, I will probably object to it. >>>> >>>> The reason is that adding such a function goes against portability of >>>> Makefiles across different ports of Make, >>> >>> ...which you would already have with cl commands and DOS paths... >> >> Actually, sorry, I've misread the above. Doesn't GNU make already have a >> plethora of functions not present in other makes? What's wrong with one >> more? If "cygpath" is too system-specific a name, let's pick one that >> isn't ("pathconv"?). > > > And I was going to point out that it could simply be a no-op on any other >platform and, as you say, a dll call on cygwin that hides make from being >exposed to any 'black magic'. I don't know. I think I agree with Eli here. The thought of adding a cygwin-specific function to make and then making sure that it exists as a noop in any other version of make seems a little pushy to me. cgf -- 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/