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 the lengthy discussion on the Cygwin list. > > To summarize, the Cygwin version of make prior to 3.81 contained local > patches to support both posix and Windows paths. The Cygwin maintainer > got tired of continuously maintaining these local patches and so when > packaging 3.81 the vanilla sources were used. This means that only > posix paths work. > > However, completely separate from Cygwin is the native (mingw) build of > make which has always supported Windows paths and always will. So it's > completely wrong to say that make doesn't support Windows paths. You > should use this version if you need to support such paths. > > The only thing that has changed was on the part of the Cygwin make > maintainer, and so this discussion belongs on the Cygwin list (where it > has already been hashed out in length.)
Thank you, this is an excellent response. Bob Rossi _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
