RE: HAVE_DOS_PATHS patch

[Ganiger, Arun Ashok (NSDi)]

Thanks much for the information.

Thanks,
Arun 

-----Original Message-----
From: marco atzeri [mailto:marco.atzeri@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2021 9:16 PM
To: help-make@gnu.org
Cc: Ganiger, Arun Ashok (NSDi) <arun.ganiger@hpe.com>; Eli Zaretskii 
<eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: HAVE_DOS_PATHS patch

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 4:19 PM Eli Zaretskii  wrote:
>
> > From: "Ganiger, Arun Ashok (NSDi)"
> > Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 14:19:30 +0000
> >
> > We are getting error subdir.mk:141: *** target pattern contains no '% when 
> > we use  DOS/Windows paths in makefile and we are using patched make version 
> > 3.81 make version to address this issue which is very old but it works. 
> > Does the above issue is addressed in latest Cygwin make version-4.3?
>
> I don't use Cygwin, but AFAIR it doesn't support DOS-style file names 
> at all.

not tested, but likely not supported.
The current Cygwin package is built from upstream make-4.3 source with no 
additional patch; so it is build for a vanilla Unix

In general the usage of not posix path for Cygwin packages is discouraged and 
it works on case by case depending on the specific package.

Regards
Marco