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Subject: RE: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:16:31 +0100
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On 17 August 2006 15:13, Igor Peshansky wrote:

> 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"?).


  And I was going to point out that it could simply be a no-op on any other
platform and, as you say, a dll call on cygwin that hides make from being
exposed to any 'black magic'.



    cheers,
      DaveK
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