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RE: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
OK, so to summarize.
- there is no options or special syntax that will allow the
make 3.81 to recognize drive letters in such a way that native
windows tools can use them. /c/ and /cygdrive/c/ will only work
with applications built against the cygwin libraries. MS cl can
no longer be used with cygwin make as of 3.81.
- cygwin will no longer maintain the patch to make that allowed
it to recognize driver letters in paths.
- A second make-winpath as part of the cygwin package is not an option
that would be accepted into cygwin.
- The option for folks that want the old behavior is to have the
change integrated into the upstream sources of gmake. Perhaps something
along the lines of /c/ that would be translated by gmake itself into c:,
so that no special parsing would be required for the makefiles.
- The other option is to use mingw-make, and only use cygwin make
for cygwin linked programs only.
Sounds like it is time to join the gmake mailing list. Has anyone
on this list tried that yet?
-Bill
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