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Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
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- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:33:47 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
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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
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