Re: FWD: Re: 3.81 and windows paths

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden>:

> 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.

I'm happy to hear this as well.  With MSYS the POSIX paths are 
converted automatically to Windows paths for the ``native'' version of 
tools.  I wanted to be able to use the ``native'' version of make with 
MSYS but I've found that if make creates a configure process and I 
interrupt make with CTRL-C then the configure script continues to 
execute.  I'll have to determine the cause and effect of the signal not 
responding in MSYS before I can use the native version.  I'm working on 
releasing MSYS 1.0.11 which will contain an MSYS build of make-3.81.

The solution for Cygwin and windows paths is to build a ``native'' 
version of make, name it differently than the Cygwin build and use that 
for the make files containing commands to cl or mingw gcc.

Earnie Boyd

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