X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:24:04 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: 3.81 and windows paths Message-ID: <20060727232404.GA9002@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> <20060727225255 DOT GG6653 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <44C94746 DOT D730AF53 AT dessent DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44C94746.D730AF53@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 04:07:50PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>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. > >Well surely such a patch would include sufficient logic to know that >^[a-z]:[/\\] incidates a DOS path and not to just blindly puke and cry >on a path component that happens to have a : in it somewhere. I'm saying that I think it is possible for a valid makefile to be interpreted incorrectly in the presence of a ':' when make interprets the ':' as a filename component. I remember a couple of reports in the last few years from people who stumbled across a parsing problem due to colons which wouldn't have been a problem if cygwin's MS-DOS aware make hadn't been trying to treat colons specially. So, I don't think that MinGW's make accepts a superset of linux makefiles and MS-DOS colon-using makefiles. I think it actually accepts a subset of all valid linux makefiles. 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/