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: <17610.11103.107564.396957@segfault.lan> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:21:03 -0400 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: psmith@gnu.org, bug-make@gnu.org Subject: Re: 3.81 and windows paths In-Reply-To: <44CA2188.9050905@equate.dyndns.org> 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> <17610.7126.60597.468701@segfault.lan> <17610.8103.778129.918123@lemming.engeast.baynetworks.com> <44CA2188.9050905@equate.dyndns.org> 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, Chris Taylor wrote: | So even if the DOS #ifdef was enabled, we'd be back at the point of | having patches to attempt to fix this behaviour. | Unless there was some way of having two versions of make - one with this | behaviour and one without, controlled by /etc/alternatives perhaps? Two versions for this seemingly small feature seems a bit much when a command-line switch could do the job. 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/