On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 4:19 PM Eli Zaretskii  wrote:
>
> > From: "Ganiger, Arun Ashok (NSDi)"
> > Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 14:19:30 +0000
> >
> > We are getting error subdir.mk:141: *** target pattern contains no '% when 
> > we use  DOS/Windows paths in makefile and we are using patched make version 
> > 3.81 make version to address this issue which is very old but it works. 
> > Does the above issue is addressed in latest Cygwin make version-4.3?
>
> I don't use Cygwin, but AFAIR it doesn't support DOS-style file names
> at all.

not tested, but likely not supported.
The current Cygwin package is built from upstream make-4.3 source
with no additional patch; so it is build for a vanilla Unix

In general the usage of not posix path for Cygwin packages is
discouraged and it works on case by case
depending on the specific package.

Regards
Marco

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