From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10802 invoked by alias); 17 Aug 2006 15:33:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 10784 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Aug 2006 15:33:53 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ACCESS1.CIMS.NYU.EDU (HELO access1.cims.nyu.edu) (128.122.81.155) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:33:49 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by access1.cims.nyu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7HFXlDR004176 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:33:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:33:00 -0000 From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <6.2.3.4.2.20060815151104.0b40e260@pop.nycap.rr.com> <01b901c6c116$21259430$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <6.2.3.4.2.20060816091525.0ab90af0@pop.nycap.rr.com> <20060816144110.GX20467@calimero.vinschen.de> <6.2.3.4.2.20060816111421.0b446b60@pop.nycap.rr.com> <20060816155054.GY20467@calimero.vinschen.de> <6.2.3.4.2.20060816144036.09695af0@pop.nycap.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List X-SW-Source: 2006-q3/txt/msg00230.txt.bz2 On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, mwoehlke wrote: > Igor Peshansky wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > > On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Alternatively, you can try to implement a $(cygpath ...) function in > > > > > make and submit *that* to the upstream maintainers. > > > > FWIW, I don't think such a function is a good idea, and if it is > > > > proposed on the Make mailing list, I will probably object to it. > > > > > > > > The reason is that adding such a function goes against portability of > > > > Makefiles across different ports of Make, > > > ...which you would already have with cl commands and DOS paths... > > > > Actually, sorry, I've misread the above. Doesn't GNU make already have a > > plethora of functions not present in other makes? What's wrong with one > > more? If "cygpath" is too system-specific a name, let's pick one that > > isn't ("pathconv"?). > > Igor > > Hey! Get off my computer! :-) > > ("pathconv" is exactly the name I gave to my tool that hides the > differences between Cygwin's path conversion and Interix's path > conversion.) Eh, get a better firewall. :-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac"