FWD: Re: 3.81 and windows paths

[Paul D. Smith]

FYI; Brian provides some critical information we need to know.  I fully
expect we'll see a bunch more people asking for help as a result of this
change in the Cygwin environment, so it's good that we are aware of it.

I think one less customized version of GNU make will simplify things for
everyone in the longer term, though.

Cheers!


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> Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:21:07 -0700
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> Bob Rossi wrote:
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> > Is it true that 3.81 does not work with windows paths?
> > If so, what is the solution now? I need to use the unix path
> > interally to make, and use the windows path only when compiling
> > with cl?
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> Please refer to the lengthy discussion on the Cygwin list.
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> To summarize, the Cygwin version of make prior to 3.81 contained local
> patches to support both posix and Windows paths.  The Cygwin maintainer
> got tired of continuously maintaining these local patches and so when
> packaging 3.81 the vanilla sources were used.  This means that only
> posix paths work.
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> However, completely separate from Cygwin is the native (mingw) build of
> make which has always supported Windows paths and always will.  So it's
> completely wrong to say that make doesn't support Windows paths.  You
> should use this version if you need to support such paths.
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> The only thing that has changed was on the part of the Cygwin make
> maintainer, and so this discussion belongs on the Cygwin list (where it
> has already been hashed out in length.)
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