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On Mar  9 13:47, Ilguiz Latypov wrote:
> 
> > The bottom line is that if you want to use MS-DOS
> > paths, then use a MinGW or DJGPP version of make.exe.  make.exe is not
> > going to be patched.
> 
> The patch was to cygwin1.dll, but I am not insisting.

Trouble is, I don't even see the problem.  Executing a file in DOS
notation is already possible:

  bash$ cat << EOF > exec.c
  #include <unistd.h>

  int
  main (int argc, char **argv)
  {
    char *args[] = { argv[1], "abc", 0};
    execv (argv[1], args);
    return 1;
  }
  EOF
  bash$ gcc -o exec exec.c
  bash$ ./exec /bin/echo
  abc
  bash$ ./exec C:\\cygwin\\bin\\echo
  abc


Corinna

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