Re: dmake for cygwin

[Randall R Schulz <rrschulz@cris.com>]

Eric,

At 11:44 2002-10-27, Eric M. Monsler wrote:
>Vijay Sampath wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>Has anybody had any luck compiling dmake for cygwin. Any help is
>>appreciated.
>
>...
>
>Have you tried the windows dmake from the cygwin shell?  When I did so, I 
>could not figure out how to properly mangle path names such that dmake 
>knew it was running in a DOS-ish shell.  It kept trying to create ksh 
>files and execute them, rather than .bat files as it did when invoked 
>under the WinNT command shell.  It seemed to be keying on the path 
>separator of "/" vs. "\" in deciding whether to make .bat or ksh files.

I know nothing of dmake, but current versions of the Cygwin utility 
"cygpath" have both -w / --windows and -m --mixed options. "Mixed" is 
Windows format with forward slashes. There's also -d, which gives a DOS 8.3 
name if the argument names an existing file and -u which produces Unix / 
POSIX names.

If your Windows "dmake" conditions its behavior on path name syntax, this 
should be enough to control it.


>...
>
>If you do find a way to let dmake play nice under cygwin, please post the 
>results.
>
>
>Eric

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


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