%% Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
cf There is no advantage using cygwin if you want to use a Makefile
cf which contains MS-DOS paths. Using MinGW makes perfect sense in
cf that case. Despite having suggested this repeatedly, it seems
cf some users are still not clear on
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 09:56:20AM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote:
%% Christopher Faylor writes:
cf If you want to use a Makefile which works in a Cygwin environment,
cf however, then obviously you need to build it with a Cygwin gcc.
You'll have to forgive my virtually complete ignorance of all
Michael Eager wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 05:09:16PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote:
In fact, I'm wondering if there is an advantage to building GNU make
using the Cygwin environment, vs. using a native MingW (for example)
build of GNU make? I'm afraid I'm woefully
On 28-Jul-2006, Paul D. Smith wrote:
| Regardless, I still wonder whether my idea of building make for a POSIX
| environment with Cygwin, but setting HAVE_DOS_PATHS explicitly, would
| work.
If this could cause some valid Makefiles to do the wrong thing as cgf
suggests might happen, then can we
Paul D. Smith wrote:
%% John W. Eaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
jwe On 28-Jul-2006, Paul D. Smith wrote:
| Regardless, I still wonder whether my idea of building make for a POSIX
| environment with Cygwin, but setting HAVE_DOS_PATHS explicitly, would
| work.
jwe If this could cause
%% John W. Eaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
jwe On 28-Jul-2006, Paul D. Smith wrote:
| This would be very tricky: right now all the code to do DOS vs. POSIX
| pathnames is controlled through #ifdefs, so it's a compile-time thing.
| Changing it to a runtime thing would be a lot of work, I
Bob Rossi wrote:
Is it true that 3.81 does not work with windows paths?
If so, what is the solution now? I need to use the unix path
interally to make, and use the windows path only when compiling
with cl?
Please refer to the lengthy discussion on the Cygwin list.
To summarize, the Cygwin
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:21:07PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
Bob Rossi wrote:
Is it true that 3.81 does not work with windows paths?
If so, what is the solution now? I need to use the unix path
interally to make, and use the windows path only when compiling
with cl?
Please refer to
