X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:52:55 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: 3.81 and windows paths Message-ID: <20060727225255.GG6653@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <008e01c6b1cc$76021310$280aa8c0 AT oius DOT com> <44C940D2 DOT 3E07ABCA AT dessent DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44C940D2.3E07ABCA@dessent.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 03:40:18PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >William Sheehan wrote: >>I can imagine that the immediate response to this complaint will be >>"fix your Makefiles to work with Cygwin if it's such an important >>component." As others have mentioned, this is no simple task in very >>large Makefile systems that support a wide variety of compilation >>toolchains. Cygwin make has supported Win32 paths for a long time, so >>much that I would say that people have come to rely on it. I am not >>saying that the changes are impossible; just that it is a larger >>inconvenience than some may realize. > >In that case, spend your time working with the Make developers to get a >patch accepted upstream that enables Windows path handling in Cygwin >builds, so that there is not a large and cumbersome out-of-tree patch >that has to be ported to each new make release. Remember this is a >volunteer effort, and SHTDI. Or you can stick with make 3.80. Actually, we have had people who have complained because make became confused by certain uses of a ':' in the old version of make. I see now that this is because of the attempt to interpret a valid make rule as a MS-DOS path. So, I'm less inclined to want to recommend an upstream patch. I don't think I want to break valid makefiles which work on linux. 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/