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On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 10:43:30AM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote:
> >> Well, the whole point of cygwin is to give a POSIX-compatible
> >> environment in win32. So it's aiming to be like linux, not windows.
> >> This means that if something like a makefile parses fine in linux, but
> >> not in cygwin (barring linker stuff), something is wrong.
> >
> >Yeah, what's wrong is that cl doesn't accept posix paths. For some
> >reason, they were added, we all got addicted to it, and now it's being
> >ripped out from underneath us. It's not a very friendly thing to do.

If you are invoking cl in your Makefiles, they are no longer POSIX or
Linux Makefiles, and you might as well run your paths through cygpath
before sending them to cl.

> <profanity deleted>

Hmm, I thought we didn't have an automatic censorship filter on this list.
I guess you just have to be *really* annoyed to trip it.

OTOH, a simple "here we <expletive> go again" would probably have
sufficed...
	Igor
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