%% "John W. Eaton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jwe> 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. jwe> If this could cause some valid Makefiles to do the wrong thing as jwe> cgf suggests might happen, Hm. I don't think I saw that message? Certainly there are obscure cases where enabling DOS path support will behave differently, but they're pretty rare I believe. Is this a Cygwin thing? jwe> then can we at least make the behavior optional, perhaps with a jwe> command line option or magic target (maybe jwe> ".WINDOWS_FILENAMES:")? This would be very tricky: right now all the code to do DOS vs. POSIX pathnames is controlled through #ifdefs, so it's a compile-time thing. Changing it to a runtime thing would be a lot of work, I think... the #ifdeffing in GNU make is kind of a mess, with all the different ports we support. Honestly, I don't see a lot of benefit to it. On a Windows system, even in Cygwin, I would assume that everyone would always expect anything that looked like a Windows pathname to be treated like a Windows pathname. We're not talking about enabling this support on UNIX, just in Cygwin. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist -- 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/
