Re: weird feature

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 03:10:19PM -0400, Edward Lam wrote:
>Dave Korn wrote:
>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> 
>>>   2. Use 'cygpath' to convert from DOS to Cygwin path forms and back as
>>>      needed.  This can get tricky/cumbersome in some cases.
>> 
>>   It can be a lot easier if you have a Makefile-based build system, where you
>> can do the conversion on things that you know need converting like $(SRC) and
>> $(OBJS) and $(INCLUDEPATH) but not things like $(CFLAGS), rather than if you
>> try and write shell scripts to wrap the compiler and parse the options.  That
>> can also be a good approach, but more work to get it completely right.
>
>In my experience, adding cygcheck does slow down a large build system 
>*significantly* when adding cygpath's though.

I can't quite grok that sentence.  Why would you add cygcheck to a build system?

cgf

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