Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 18:18:15 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: make 3.80 and VPATH Message-ID: <20030710221815.GA13937@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <3F0DE2D4 DOT 8010801 AT seawood DOT org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F0DE2D4.8010801@seawood.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:04:04PM -0700, Christopher Seawood wrote: >It appears that make 3.80 no longer translates the path in VPATH to a >native cygwin path. Is this intentional? > >This causes a problem for objdir builds with Mozilla which uses win32 >paths for VPATH, topsrcdir & srcdir. > >http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210393 Translated here for posterity: * cygwin has moved to make-3.8.0 whic fails trying to build mozilla. the problem * is they defaulted the make mode to --win32. Failure is: * * unable to find Makefile.in in obj-i586-pc-msvc * * which looks like a VPATH failure This bug report is gobbledegook. No details, poor assumptions. Sorry. Test case required. Explanation of how make is invoked required. cgf -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to aaaspam AT sourceware DOT org and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com -- 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/