X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44C2AFD8.8050508@cygwin.com> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 19:08:08 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060112 Fedora/1.5-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Why are Windows paths broken in make 3.81? References: <9c2aabaf0607211629u4e29ffa1w5f09b3d8e5a923fc AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <44C1796F DOT 50308 AT netacquire DOT com> In-Reply-To: <44C1796F.50308@netacquire.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On 07/21/2006, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote: > I just had to deal with such a messy system and the new Cygwin make doesn't > work. Even though this collection of makefiles was initially written on a > POSIX system it still got into trouble with DOS paths because some of the > tools it calls to generate makefiles return platform-specific paths. So > this works fine on a POSIX system, worked fine on Win2000 with the old > make, but now I had to understand complicated sed programs to add extra > platform-specific sed transformations to convert paths returned by other > cross-platform tools to something the new make accepts. > Did you think about using 'cygpath' on the result instead of adding extra platform specific transformations to your complicated sed programs? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/