From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19347 invoked by alias); 17 Aug 2006 16:38:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 19337 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Aug 2006 16:38:11 -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 16:38:09 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by access1.cims.nyu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7HGc7Ca010561 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:38:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:38:00 -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: <00fb01c6c218$9729a3d0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Message-ID: References: <00fb01c6c218$9729a3d0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.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/msg00242.txt.bz2 On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > On 17 August 2006 17:12, mwoehlke wrote: > > > Igor Peshansky wrote: > >> 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"?). > >>> > >>> 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. :-) > > > > I'll talk to my IT department. ;p > > Relax, we already did it. > > In your name. From your computer. > > Then we went into theirs and sent you a reply, but it's awfully rude. > You don't want to read it. So we deleted the mail spool. > > However, we have installed a firewall on your PC for you. Just one > thing, though, I think we put it in the wrong way round. I think we > just protected the rest of the internet from you. So you may not see > this reply. Oh, and Cygwin may not work too well now, since we've installed Symantec... 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"