Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote on Sunday, July 23, 2006 1:08 AM: > On 07/21/2006, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote: >> I just had to deal with such a messy system and the new Cygwin make >> doesn't work. Even though this collection of makefiles was initially >> written on a POSIX system it still got into trouble with DOS paths >> because some of the tools it calls to generate makefiles return >> platform-specific paths. So this works fine on a POSIX system, >> worked fine on Win2000 with the old make, but now I had to >> understand complicated sed programs to add extra platform-specific >> sed transformations to convert paths returned by other >> cross-platform tools to something the new make accepts. >> > > > Did you think about using 'cygpath' on the result instead of adding > extra platform specific transformations to your complicated sed > programs?
Some useful definitions I've posted some years ago: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-06/msg01318.html :) - Jörg -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/