From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30852 invoked by alias); 17 Aug 2006 15:17:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 30844 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Aug 2006 15:17:49 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:17:46 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GDjcg-0008ER-5A for cygwin-talk@cygwin.com; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:17:30 +0200 Received: from 65.207.213.226 ([65.207.213.226]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:17:30 +0200 Received: from mwoehlke by 65.207.213.226 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:17:30 +0200 To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com From: mwoehlke Subject: Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81 Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:17:00 -0000 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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Thunderbird/1.5.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: 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/msg00228.txt.bz2 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.) -- Matthew Websites such as ... Wikipedia ... are reputed to occupy users for periods in excess of 5 hours. -- Wikipedia article on Internet Addiction