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Dave Korn wrote:
> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> 
>>   2. Use 'cygpath' to convert from DOS to Cygwin path forms and back as
>>      needed.  This can get tricky/cumbersome in some cases.
> 
>   It can be a lot easier if you have a Makefile-based build system, where you
> can do the conversion on things that you know need converting like $(SRC) and
> $(OBJS) and $(INCLUDEPATH) but not things like $(CFLAGS), rather than if you
> try and write shell scripts to wrap the compiler and parse the options.  That
> can also be a good approach, but more work to get it completely right.

In my experience, adding cygcheck does slow down a large build system 
*significantly* when adding cygpath's though.

-Edward

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