Well, I said it was probably stupid :-) Ok, I'll dig into it some more. It seemed worth asking in case everyone said "Hey, dip****, use the -XYZ option".
...phsiii -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 4:14 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Probably stupid make question 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. -- 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/
