X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "John W. Eaton" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17610.7126.60597.468701@segfault.lan> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:14:46 -0400 To: "Paul D. Smith" Cc: bug-make@gnu.org, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 3.81 and windows paths In-Reply-To: <17610.6020.12729.506044@lemming.engeast.baynetworks.com> References: <20060727195042.GC27890@brasko.net> <44C92033.A2978A8E@dessent.net> <17609.11132.462789.443104@lemming.engeast.baynetworks.com> <20060727221136.GD6653@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <17610.6020.12729.506044@lemming.engeast.baynetworks.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.50.1 X-CAE-MailScanner-Information: Please contact security@engr.wisc.edu if this message contains a virus or has been corrupted in delivery. X-CAE-MailScanner: Found to be clean (benji) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 28-Jul-2006, Paul D. Smith wrote: | Regardless, I still wonder whether my idea of building make for a POSIX | environment with Cygwin, but setting HAVE_DOS_PATHS explicitly, would | work. If this could cause some valid Makefiles to do the wrong thing as cgf suggests might happen, then can we at least make the behavior optional, perhaps with a command line option or magic target (maybe ".WINDOWS_FILENAMES:")? That way, people who don't ask for the special feature won't be bitten by it. Thanks, jwe -- 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/