On 06/18/2013 08:20 AM, Fedin Pavel wrote: > Hello! > >> Because some scripts try to use >> >> $(DESTDIR)/$(PREFIX) >> >> rather than >> >> $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX) > > Yes, exactly, this is what i have got. > I start to have these problems when i try to do non-standard things like > cross-compiling Linux kernel and some 3rd party modules. :) > Ability to run 'make install_modules' requires /sbin/depmod. With hardcoded > /sbin path. So, i have to cross-compile module-init-tools with '--prefix=/'. > This is the first place where i get '//'. Well, perhaps i'm lame and > '--prefix=' is the correct thing, not what i write. However i just followed > the tradition here > Next, module-init-tools relies on either 'docbook2man' or 'docbook-to-man'. > I guess both packages are considered obsolete by Cygwin, we have > 'docbook2x-man' instead. So, i have to build one of those two packages. > $(DESTDIR)/$(PREFIX) is found in the first one. > Well, perhaps irrelevant because it fails to build with new awk (or > something like that, already don't remember). So i have found (ancient) > docbook-to-man and built it. Works. Does replacing "/" with "/." help or does it not help? I cannot test this right now.
> > Also i remember getting this little problem somewhere else in the past. > Already don't remember... > > Now my last arguments... > First. Actually, we may consider this as kind of interoperability problem. > Technically it's possible to fix this at either side. However, let's say we > have three packages suffering from this problem. So, it's possible to do > either three fixes (for packages), or a single fix (for Cygwin). A single > fix is less time-consuming. Especially taking into account that a half of us > uses Cygwin at work, where we have other tasks to do. > Second, if we take a look at real-world POSIX systems (Linux, BSD, whatever > else), they don't use '//' for network paths. Instead they use mountable > filesystems. And Cygwin's goal is to fully implement UNIX-compatible > environment, isn't it ? So, consequently, having a mount point would me more > compatible with other real-world systems. > Third, package's author can say: 'nobody else has this problem, so it's > Cygwin's bug, not mine, i won't fix'. Or he can simply blindly hate Windows. > My another topic (cross-compiling Linux kerne) contains an example of such > an attitude. > And, i agree, '//' is shorter to type than '/unc/'. :) And perhaps someone > already relies on '//' in his scripts for his installation. > > To sum things up, this was just an opinion. I didn't want to start a war. > :) -- VZ
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