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On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, mwoehlke wrote:

> Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > Alternatively, you can try to implement a $(cygpath ...) function in make
> > and submit *that* to the upstream maintainers.  That way, the Cygwin make
> > will not have to invoke a separate process to convert the paths that it
> > (as a program linked to cygwin1.dll) already knows how to do.
>
> I'd like to point out that such a patch would be all of about five lines
> of "code"... (And for the record, I've written both new make functions
> AND my own version of cygpath, so I know what I'm talking about.)

Properly written, perhaps about 10.  But what's a constant factor between
friends? ;-)

> Except note you would almost certainly want $(cygpathu) and $(cygpathw).

Umm, actually I was thinking of $(cygpath) with 2 parameters -- the type
of conversion, and the list of paths.

> Because no one seems to have gotten the point yet,
> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI ...and that somebody is not likely to
> be one of the people not having problems, so if all these other posters
> would kindly put their patches where their mouths are, then maybe
> something would be accomplished.

And those patches should certainly go to the GNU make mailing list for
the upstream maintainers to review.
	Igor
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