On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:07:41PM -0400, William A. Hoffman wrote: >At 02:36 PM 8/14/2006, Dave Korn wrote: >>On 14 August 2006 19:29, Bill Hoffman wrote: >> >> >> Search the archives, and read the release announcement for the new make >>version. >> >> Every single day for the past month, we have had at least seventy-four[*] >>identical duplicate redundant reports of this from people who haven't bothered >>to check if it was already known. > >Just being lazy. I should have searched. I see now there is quite a bit >of traffic on this. I don't know if this is adding to the discussion, but >I will give my use case that shows the problem. > >So, visual studio 2005 now supports the ability to run cl for two .o files >at the same time, so you can do make -j N builds with cl as the compiler. >I am the maintainer of the CMake www.cmake.org package, and CMake can generate >"Unix Makefiles" on windows, and in the past prior to 3.81, this worked. >The problem is that the CMake that generates the makefiles does not know about >cygwin, and can not run cygpath. It creates makefiles with / and not \, but >still has the drive letter : for full paths. cl does accept paths with / in >them, >but it obviously does not know about /cygdrive/c. > >I guess I should just recommend that cmake users use mingw make:
I'm not 100% clear on what you're saying but if cmake distributed with Cygwin is producing makefiles with MS-DOS SYNTAX then, actually it should either be fixed to not do that or it should be pulled from the distribution. I wasn't aware of this limitation. cgf -- 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/
