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On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Aug 17 09:59, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > Actually, as Gareth mentioned, *Cygwin* allows colons in file names on
> > managed mounts.  So, at the very least there'd be confusion of whether
> > c:\\TEMP is a directory TEMP in the root of the C: drive, or a file named
> > 'c:\\TEMP' in the current directory on a managed mount...
>
> Since colons are perfectly valid characters on POSIX file systems,
> there's no reason to generate a special case for Cygwin.  The problems
> generated by using such filenames are identical on all these OSes.

I was simply pointing out that in case of Cygwin, if the build happens to
run on a managed mount (which emulates a true POSIX file system), having
DOS paths in the Makefile is ambiguous anyway.  This is in addition to any
(non-)problems introduced by colons and backslashes.
	Igor
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