Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

[mwoehlke <mwoehlke at tibco dot com>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 03:40:12PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
> > Just to jump over to the other side here for a second...  I assume you
> > don't intend to ever make it /impossible/ to run DOS tools on Cygwin?
> > That IMO *would* be unacceptable and unrealistic.  But, of course,
> > that's what interface tools - like cygpath - are for.  IOW, the ability
> > to offer a "pure POSIX" environment is good, as long as it does not
> > preclude any communication whatsoever (no matter how clunky) with
> > Windows.
>
> No, we will always have some way of running and communicating with MS-DOS
> filenames.
>
> One thing I just added to cygwin recently is a warning which shows up
> the first time you use a MS-DOS path, though.  I am expecting that to be
> very popular!

Yup! But hey, *I'll* never see it... :-)

> > I think I've made my position on the 'make' decision known; I have 
> > absolutely no problems with it, and I support it. Just as long as I can 
> > still pipe between DOS and Cygwin applications(*), share file systems, 
> > and have something like 'cygpath', Cygwin can (and should) be as 
> > POSIX-like as it wants. :-)
>
> Pipes between MS-DOS programs and Cygwin programs is actually one of
> the things that is a little tricky but it is not slated to go away.

Right... I was pretty sure no one was out to *actually* remove anything 
like this, but I'm just paranoid enough to make sure. :-) Thanks.

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Matthew
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