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On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > > On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > >
> > > Alternatively, you can try to implement a $(cygpath ...) function in
> > > make and submit *that* to the upstream maintainers.
> >
> > FWIW, I don't think such a function is a good idea, and if it is
> > proposed on the Make mailing list, I will probably object to it.
> >
> > The reason is that adding such a function goes against portability of
> > Makefiles across different ports of Make,
>
> ...which you would already have with cl commands and DOS paths...

Actually, sorry, I've misread the above.  Doesn't GNU make already have a
plethora of functions not present in other makes?  What's wrong with one
more?  If "cygpath" is too system-specific a name, let's pick one that
isn't ("pathconv"?).
	Igor
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