IMO, this document should not make any predictions about make 3.82, which
is not yet released.
Last time I researched the "C:/" problem, the developers had said that
"C:/" paths were defective and that they deliberately pulled support for
them because they were too much hassle to support in cygwin. They
recommended using MSYS make instead.
Here's where they explain their position:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00671.html
> Was this a deliberate break with backwards compatibility?
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.
[aka MSYS make]
Kelly O'Hair wrote:
Attached is a diff and an updated OpenJDK README-builds.html file.
If anyone has the time to review the changes I would appreciate it.
The bugs fixed are:
6704966: OpenJDK README needs additional info on how to build freetype
6704968: OpenJDK Build README is missing ant requirement
6704973: OpenJDK Build readme needs cygwin package list improvements
6462815: cygwin's gnumake 3.81-1 does not support MS-DOS path names
And the environment variable list is sorted.
-kto
