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On 7/21/06, mwoehlke <mwoehlke@tibco.com> wrote:Michael Hirsch wrote: > Here is a sample Makefile that breaks with Gnu Make 3.81-1 under > Cygwin, but works fine with Gnu Make 3.80-1. We have been writing > these types of Makefiles for years, using both Windows and Cygwin > tools, and this is the first time Make has ever broken like this. > > I see in another thread that this is a known issue, though I don't see > it in the changelogs for make 3.81. > > Was this a deliberate break with backwards compatibility? It means > that every single reference to a windows path needs to be wrapped in > cygpath, which is a huge inconvenience.
Yes. See <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2006-07/msg00008.html>. If you are using a POSIX-like "OS" (i.e. Cygwin), you should be using POSIX paths. That's not an inconvenience, that's called writing a bad makefile. If you aren't using Cygwin for the POSIX environment, you should be using MinGW.
I see. Unfortunately, I am trying to use cygwin to make my life easier on Windows, but I am still constrained to use windows programs. Many of them cannot use the cygwin paths, but require a path like "c:/my/path.exe". It will be very difficult to switch back and forth between path representations. I guess I do need to look into MinGW.
> Is it broken only on Windows?
That sounds like a silly question... 'are Windows paths only broken on Windows?'
It sounds like a silly question, but it isn't. I tested, and yes, if you have a directory named "c:" in Linux, make is broken on that directory, too. Since "c:" is a valid name in Linux (and POSIX, I believe) I consider that a bug in make. I'll have to report that to GNU, as it is not a cygwin issue. The error message on Linux is just as incomprehensible as it is Cygwin, too, so at least I know who to talk to about it.
-- Matthew Ok, so the quotes aren't entirely original.
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