On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 01:13:47PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Phil Smith wrote: >>We're perverting CMake and Cygwin make to use a cross-compiler for z/OS >>(IBM mainframe). We've beaten it mostly into submission, but are >>hitting an issue with definitions being passed. Cygwin make seems to >>be passing them in the format: >> >> -Dvarname value >> >> rather than: >> >> -Dvarname=value >> >>and the cross-compiler doesn't like that much. Some discussion with >>more *IX-savvy friends suggests that the "blank" format is older, and >>is deprecated due to ambiguity (does "-Dvarname abc.c xyz.c" mean "set >>varname to abc.c and compile xyz.c", or "set varname to 1 and compile >>abc.c and xyz.c"?). > >I think you're going to have to be more specific, such as providing a >testcase that reproduces the problem. This must be due to some aspect >of cmake, because there's nothing in plain make (AFAIK) that has >anything to do with how -D or any other parameter is passed to any tool >-- make executes commands exactly as written in the Makefile, no more >no less.
As the make maintainer, let me say: What he said. 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/
