X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: mwoehlke Subject: Re: make 3.81-1 problems with DOS-paths Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:59:03 -0500 Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <451AB554.3020805@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: <451AB554.3020805@web.de> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Knut Schwichtenberg wrote: > I've udated on 14.Sep.06 my Cygwin make to 3.81-1. The C-project I was > compiling generated dependency files including system files. For system > files the full path in DOS notation is entered into the dependency file. > Make stops the execution of the makefile with the "very" expressive > message: "multiple target patterns. Stop." Digging around with gdb and > the source code I found out a missing define at compile time of make. > The define "HAS_DOS_PATHS" was not set in the makefie for make. Version > 3.80 of make ran without problems and setting this switch makes 3.81 run > without a problem. > > How is it possible that ./configure does not recognize the Cygwin > environment properly for a Windows-PC? Is the missing define only a > derived problem that is based on an error in the toolchain before? If you'd STFLA'd (LA = List Archives), you'd know that this was the subject of Cygwin's most recent Holy War. IIRC "HAS_DOS_PATHS" is a broken solution, which is why it was not (and as I understand, never was) defined for Cygwin. Instead there was a kludgy patch in place that CGF decided to stop maintaining (which generated a lot of irate users... and a new upstream patch, which I thought was in the latest available package?). So if someone that knows what the status of said package would kindly step in now? (Or you can STFLA...) In short: make 3.81 intentionally removed support for DOS paths; use make 3.80 or the newer version (make-3.81-2?). -- Matthew The hippo made me do it! What? What do you mean you can't see the hippo? -- 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/