On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, mwoehlke wrote: > Igor Peshansky wrote: > > Alternatively, you can try to implement a $(cygpath ...) function in make > > and submit *that* to the upstream maintainers. That way, the Cygwin make > > will not have to invoke a separate process to convert the paths that it > > (as a program linked to cygwin1.dll) already knows how to do. > > I'd like to point out that such a patch would be all of about five lines > of "code"... (And for the record, I've written both new make functions > AND my own version of cygpath, so I know what I'm talking about.)
Properly written, perhaps about 10. But what's a constant factor between friends? ;-) > Except note you would almost certainly want $(cygpathu) and $(cygpathw). Umm, actually I was thinking of $(cygpath) with 2 parameters -- the type of conversion, and the list of paths. > Because no one seems to have gotten the point yet, > http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI ...and that somebody is not likely to > be one of the people not having problems, so if all these other posters > would kindly put their patches where their mouths are, then maybe > something would be accomplished. And those patches should certainly go to the GNU make mailing list for the upstream maintainers to review. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/