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RE: Need help with makefile
- To: Paul Kinnucan <paulk at mathworks dot com>, "Nascif Abousalh-Neto" <nascif at nortelnetworks dot com>
- Subject: RE: Need help with makefile
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 18:35:38 -0500
- Cc: jde at sunsite dot dk, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- References: <7DBB74CCC0C7D411B89600508BCF9C2456586E@zrtpd0jf.us.nortel. com>
At 05:19 PM 3/4/2001, Paul Kinnucan wrote:
>At 02:17 PM 3/4/2001 -0500, Nascif Abousalh-Neto wrote:
>
> >
> > mkdir -p is what we use at our company.
> > Why is it not sufficient?
>
>
>
>I am using cygwin on Windows. cygwin supports several different methods of
>specifying paths, e.g.,
>
>c:/cygwin/home/foo
>//c/cygwin/home/foo
>/cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/foo
>/home/foo (c:/cygwin/home is mounted as /home)
>
>As it turns out, mkdir -p fails with the path spec I was using
>in my makefile, e.g.,
>
>//c/cygwin/home/foo
>
>It seems to work fine with the other versions. So...
>
>Never mind.
Yup, //<drive> is deprecated syntax, since it clashes with UNC paths. In
general, its preferable to use POSIX paths.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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