William A. Hoffman wrote on Wednesday, August 16, 2006 4:14 PM: [snip]
> So, there seem to be three options on the table: > > - pay redhat to put the patch back > - maintain your own version of make, that is separate from cygwin. > - have the patch made part of the upstream gnu make The forth option is to provide a proper make file. Again: any difference between *nix and Windows can be hidden by appropriate macros in make. Note, that it is not make that's broken. [snip] > I am sure you can see that it would be better for people that depend > on this feature if it were part of cygwin. Cygwin emulates Posix with Posix paths. For this purpose it works OOTB quite really often for a lot of *nix packages. Therefore if you start to depend on Windows-based tools within Cygwin make, then you have to convert the paths yourself. Cygwin helps you with the cygpath utility, so where's the deal? I know it is unfortunate for you that the previous support for DOS-based paths has gone without a preceding announcement, but if you like to keep your instructions regarding installation of make, deliver an appropriate make file. - Jörg -- 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/
