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Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote on Sunday, July 23, 2006 1:08 AM:

> 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? 

Some useful definitions I've posted some years ago:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-06/msg01318.html

:)

- Jörg

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