X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:12:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com cc: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <6 DOT 2 DOT 3 DOT 4 DOT 2 DOT 20060815151104 DOT 0b40e260 AT pop DOT nycap DOT rr DOT com> <01b901c6c116$21259430$a501a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> <6 DOT 2 DOT 3 DOT 4 DOT 2 DOT 20060816091525 DOT 0ab90af0 AT pop DOT nycap DOT rr DOT com> <20060816144110 DOT GX20467 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <6 DOT 2 DOT 3 DOT 4 DOT 2 DOT 20060816111421 DOT 0b446b60 AT pop DOT nycap DOT rr DOT com> <20060816155054 DOT GY20467 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <6 DOT 2 DOT 3 DOT 4 DOT 2 DOT 20060816144036 DOT 09695af0 AT pop DOT nycap DOT rr DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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, 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 -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu | igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/