X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 07:16:31 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: make-3.81 update? Message-ID: <20070525111631.GB15201@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <46565CBE.7020401@qualcomm.com> <20070525041200.GA14393@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <46566982.7000006@qualcomm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46566982.7000006@qualcomm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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, May 24, 2007 at 09:43:46PM -0700, Rob Walker wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 08:49:18PM -0700, Rob Walker wrote: >> >>>http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/make/job.c?rev=1.182&root=make&view=auto >>> >>>Looks like the Windows-style paths support has been accepted as an >>>upstream patch. When can Cygwin pick this up? >>> >> >>It is very much not a priority. I'll probably wait for the next release >>of make. The CVS version has some reported bugs anyway. >> >Thanks for the update. What might make this a priority? > >My situation is this: I cannot advocate an off-the-rack Cygwin >installation for my team or my customers. If your team or your customers are relying on MS-DOS paths then they are not actually using Cygwin the way it was designed to be used. Maybe you should be investigating MinGW instead. 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/